Shulou(Shulou.com)11/24 Report--

Thanks to CTOnews.com netizen Nico520 for the clue delivery! CTOnews.com, November 2 (Xinhua) SpaceX's Falcon heavy carrier rocket successfully lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on November 1, local time, delivering a secret carrier to Earth orbit for the US Air Force. This is the first mission of a super rocket in three years, which is claimed to be "the most capable rocket in active service in the world." this mission is the 50th launch of SpaceX this year.

The Pentagon said the latest mission, codenamed USSF-44, had been postponed because of carrier problems. This is the second national security-related launch of a Falcon heavy carrier rocket as part of a growing business between SpaceX and the Pentagon.

Although the Falcon heavy rocket has the strongest carrying capacity among the active rockets, it has only carried out three launches and has not lifted off since 2019. In 2018, the first launch of the Falcon heavy rocket sent the Tesla sports car of SpaceX CEO Elon Musk into space; in 2019, the rocket carried out two missions to orbit a giant communications satellite from Saudi Arabia and a batch of experimental satellites from the U.S. Department of Defense.

As for the rocket that has been used only three times so far, SpaceX's official statement is that the Falcon heavy rocket is too strong to carry and does not have a suitable payload.

CTOnews.com learned that in addition to this launch, the Falcon heavy rocket will carry out at least two other launches this year, one related to the Tai Air Force and the other to the NASA mission.

It is worth mentioning that the "Falcon heavy" rocket may soon lose the title of "the strongest carrying capacity in the world". The SLS rocket prepared for the US return to the moon project will return to the launch tower on November 4. if all goes well, it will try to launch for the first time soon. At the same time, SpaceX is also actively promoting the "Starship" super rocket project, which is expected to be launched for the first time by the end of this year. Both of these super rockets have far more carrying capacity than Falcon heavy rockets.

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