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SpaceX targets late June for Falcon Heavy launch
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IANS | 11 Jun, 2019
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket
will take to the skies for the third time to launch the US Department of
Defense's Space Test Program-2 (STP-2) mission in late June, according
to a release of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).
Several exciting, one-of-a-kind NASA technology and science payloads are among the two dozen spacecraft aboard.
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27 engines of the Falcon Heavy rocket generate thrust at liftoff equal
to that of approximately 18 airplanes, and it can lift over 140,000
pounds (about 63,503 kg), according to the JPL, Xinhua news agency
reported.
Managed by the US Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center, STP-2 is the first government-contracted Falcon Heavy launch.
It
will reuse the two side boosters recovered after the April flight.
SpaceX described it as one of the most challenging launches in the
company's history.
NASA will launch some pretty cool technologies
in this mission, which will support its future exploration plans by
helping improve future spacecraft design and performance, said the
release.
According to the JPL, the technologies include the Deep
Space Atomic Clock, a navigation payload hosted on the General Atomics
Orbital Test Bed satellite; the Green Propellant Infusion Mission, a
small satellite that will demonstrate a non-toxic fuel and propulsion
system; Space Environment Testbeds, instruments hosted on the US Air
Force Research Lab's Demonstration and Science Experiments spacecraft to
study how to protect satellites in space; and the Enhanced Tandem
Beacon Experiment, twin CubeSats to study the disruptions of signals
that pass through Earth's upper atmosphere.
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