Monday, April 15, 2019

SpaceX Falcon Heavy Core Lost To Heavy Seas

The core of the Falcon Heavy rocket--which was successfully landed on a drone ship last week, in the first commercial Falcon Heavy launch by Hawthorne, California-based SpaceX, has been lost in the Atlantic, according to SpaceX. Apparently, the Falcon Heavy's center core was lost due to eight to ten foot swells in the oceans off Cape Canaveral. SpaceX had landed the center core at sea, and two booster rockets on land in its launch of the Arabsat-6A high capacity telecommunications satellite.

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