SpaceX's Recycled Rocket Successfully Landed, Ready For The Next Launch

Falcon Heavy taking off over one year ago carried the private Tesla Roadster of Elon Musk into space. And Falcon Heavy once again took another flight to space to send a telecommunication satellite named Arabsat-6A for Saudi Arabia to orbit on April 11. It is the rocket’s very first commercial launch.

Falcon Heavy, SpaceX’s most powerful rocket in the world at present, took off from the Launch Complex 39A located at Florida-based Kennedy Space Center of NASA. In fact, it was set for launch on April 10, but unfavorable winds made the launch be delayed.

While planning to gently land Falcon Heavy’s center core on the “Of Course I Still Love You” droneship's floating, SpaceX aimed to bring the side boosters of the rocket down on pads which are called Landing Zones 1 and 2.

As the results, the rocket’s side boosters came back to the Earth safely in a well-coordinated landing. Then Falcon Heavy’s center core was successfully landed on the above-mentioned droneship, which is a milestone for SpaceX.

It is known that the original demonstration mission of Falcon Heavy carried out at the beginning of 2018 included two side boosters’ safe recovery, however, the center core was not be found when it fell down the Atlantic Ocean.

Previously, Musk had given his estimate that the failure risk of Falcon Heavy is 5 percent - 10 percent due to unproven changes that were made since the original Falcon Heavy demonstration launch.

The launch shows the commencement of the new era of evolution for consumer flights of SpaceX. Falcon Heavy is really a monster which is able to send 141,000 lbs (roughly 64 metric tons) to orbit. It's much heavier than the Tesla Roadster.