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Credit & Copyright: SpaceX
Explanation:
Twenty seven Merlin rocket engines are firing in this
close-up
of the launch of a Falcon Heavy rocket.
Derived from three
Falcon 9
first stage rockets with
nine Merlin rocket engines each, the Falcon Heavy left
NASA's Kennedy Space Center launch pad 39A on April 11.
This second launch of a
Falcon Heavy rocket
carried the Arabsat 6A
communications satellite to space.
In February of 2018, the first Falcon Heavy launch carried
Starman and a Tesla Roadster.
Designed to be reusable, both booster stages and the central core returned
safely to planet Earth, the boosters to
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station landing zones.
The core stage landed
off shore on autonomous spaceport drone ship
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