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SpaceX has successfully tested all three of its Falcon Heavy first stage cores ahead of a planned maiden launch in November:
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is hoping to launch his company's Falcon Heavy rocket for the first time in November, and with just a couple of months to go, the company announced that it has completed testing on all three of the rocket's first stage cores.
In the tweet, the company says that three first stage cores have completed their testing, and showed off a video of a static test of one of the cores. The company conducted its first static test of the Falcon Heavy's main core in May.
[For more about the Falcon Heavy, see SpaceX and Wikipedia. --Ed.]
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A Smith & Wesson beats four aces.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Immerman on Monday September 04 2017, @03:50PM
The Heavy should eventually start to really open up space, restoring the heavy-lift capacity we've been missing for so long. Especially important now that Bigelow etc. seem to be ready to use that capacity to start making quick and easy pop-up orbital habitats.
And in the meantime, we should hopefully be treated to some spectacular fireworks at least on par with the early landing attempts while they work out the details!