What is Falcon Heavy?
Falcon Heavy is a reusable super heavy-lift launch vehicle designed and manufactured by SpaceX. It is a variant on the Falcon 9 line of rockets, and it consists of a strengthened Falcon 9 rocket core with two additional Falcon 9 first stages as strap-on boosters. The Falcon Heavy is the world's 4th highest capacity rocket ever to be built.
What happened on February 14th, 2018?
On February 14th, 2018, the Falcon Heavy had its original test flight. It was launched at 3:45 PM EST after a delay of 2 hours because of unfavorable wind conditions. There are 3 more scheduled launches, 2 later in 2018 and 1 in 2020. There is no word when the first manned flight with this rocket will occur.
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