An observant standing about 10-15 minutes away from Kennedy space center observed the
first sci-fi launch of the Falcon Heavy, and of course, it was a great sight to behold.
In case you don’t live close to KSC, and want to have a clue of what it's like for
the Falcon Heavy to be launched in your backyard at 2:30 am.
No doubt you will definitely wake up and perhaps listen as your roof starts vibrating, and
the vibration may eventually run through the walls of your room, and make your windows
rattle.
So, the initial launch sounded like incredibly heavy thunder that went on for several minutes.
The scariest part is the sonic booms that will come afterward.
A better way to describe it is to think of a giant alien ship randomly coming up, kicking
and punching your house, or a full-on giant cannonball getting shot at your home twice
in a row.
That is what it feels like to live close to Kenedy Space center these days; Let's refresh
our memories about the recent SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch that operated on high IQ technology
which shocked scientists and left us to feed our eyes on the most amazing things that ever
happened in the human race.
Stick around, and lets ball along.
The truth is; Elon Musk was once a laughing stock and watching everyone laugh at him and
write him off as a fool and rich boy with too much money to throw around.
Many went as far as taking bets on how quickly how Elon would bankrupt himself.
Especially in the early days of SpaceX, NASA was the company's biggest opposition.
NASA thought they were the best in manufacturing space rockets and no other company would ever
come remotely close to what they had achieved despite their stagnation.
But right before our eyes, after several years, we've watched as Elon Musk finally had several
designs ready and began to build them.
Then the testing time came, and everyone ridiculed him for every blazing crash and failure of
the rockets.
Even though many of us belong to the school of thought that says; one must first fail
before ever having a chance to succeed.
SpaceX and Elon Musk suddenly declared that the next launch would be a successful landing,
and then it happened.
The naysayers went deathly quiet as he did exactly what he said he would do, then declaring
he was going bigger, better again.
In this era of SpaceX, the Naysayers are now gone, and in their place are countless SpaceX
followers.
They are lovely fans willing to throw money at Elon and SpaceX.
Nasa perhaps felt ashamed and ate their own words as they admitted they had been overtaken
and left in the dust in the space technology race.
Nasa realized how they've unable to keep up and unable to explain why they were wasting
so much taxpayers' money on a death rocket which their engineers always claim to spend
time working on every day, yet it has not flown above the earth's atmosphere.
With the recent successful launch of the Falcon heavy, space has finally been privatized by
someone who dared to dream and actively sought to make his dreams come true.
SpaceX right now is the number 1 space agency in the world, and everyone else is just playing
catch-up, except for Blue Origin; though they are pushing it up to their best, but they'll
never catch up to spacex, not now.
A Falcon Heavy launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center or KSC in Florida on Sunday,
January 15th at 5:56 pm5:56 p.m. EST, kicking off a classified mission for the U.S. Space
Force called USSF-67.
"Liftoff of USSF-67.
Go Falcon Heavy!
Go Space Force!"
a mission team member said over SpaceX's communications line during the live webcast of the launch.
The first three stages of SpaceX's workhorse Falcon 9 rocket have been changed to make
Falcon Heavy.
These three are tied together, and the one in the middle has an upper stage that can
carry a payload.
Like the Falcon 9, the first-stage boosters of the Falcon Heavy are made to be used more
than once.
Eight minutes after launch, the side boosters of USSF-67 landed safely at Cape Canaveral
Space Force Station, right next to KSC.
The USSF-67's central booster was a brand-new vehicle that would never fly again.
It was supposed to crash into the Atlantic Ocean shortly after takeoff on the same day
because it had used too much fuel to return home.
As the Falcon Heavy and its huge exhaust plume rose back into the sun, an artificial sunrise
lit up the pillar-shaped plume with the same color as the sun and eventually shone bright
daylight.
Tracking telescopes gave people a close look at the real action, which started right after
the Twin Side boosters separated from the Rocket's main core stage, and the upper stage
flipped around and light up its engines to fly back to the Florida coast where it had
just taken off.
The upper stage of the Falcon Heavy kept sending its payloads into orbit.
But we are yet to see much of that trip because SpaceX stopped the launch webcast right after
the booster landed at the Space Force's request.
It is not clear when the payloads will be deployed.
Many spacex fans saw the flight, and the sight of it swept them off their feet when they
saw the mystery behind technology happening up there in the sky.
Russell Anderson, who witness the flight live, express his electrifying excitement saying;
"I saw it going up last Sunday, early evening, as I was driving home to Oviedo from Altamonte
Springs.
At first I thought it was a UFO!
I saw the orange-yellow pillar of fire, then the boosters separate, then I saw the second
stage going up into space.
It left a cool multi-color smoke trail and a blue-white mushroom at the top.
It was so cool!
Another SpaceX lover Walter Engler, who thought the launch left his wife with an unbelievable
thought said;
"I watched the launch and separation over and over.
My wife could not understand why.
But the engineering and process involved are wonderful."
Indeed the feeling of seeing all the stage launch of the Falcon Heavy rocket is an overwhelming
experience.
The sight of seeing those side boosters exhaust interactions where amazing.
It started as if they had butterfly wings, and then went to holding hands with the exhausts
meeting in the center.
Falcon Heavy carried a military communication satellite having smaller payloads.
And guess what?
What Elon Musk has been trying to explain to the public about booster separation finally
happened before our eyes.
Watching the flight concept was very intriguing, especially as the side boosters got separated
from the central core booster – it depicts a picture-perfect example of the power behind
innovation, not just innovation but how creative the brain behind this sort of technology could
be.
Now imagine this; we don't want to transport these three boosters into space.
Instead, we only want to send the first-stage Rocket into orbit, which will later release
the cargo, and the military satellite.
But for that to be done, we need a great push or force that is powerful enough to propel
the two boosters and the first-stage Rocket into space, and on reaching space, we don't
have to destroy the Rocket by any means or as a result of any mistake.
We need them safe and sound back to earth, so we can immediately or later send another
payload into space.
This is where reusability comes in.
And it was just like a mind game out of our imagination to watch the Falcon Heavy demonstrate
all these flight stages without any fluff – that means SpaceX is taking a step forward
to make sure the starship triumph more than we, the watchers, can predict in 2023.
It will, for real, be a game changer.
And again what made the Falcon Heavy launch much more mysterious, to the extent anyone
can drift and think it didn't happen in our real world, is – knowing fully well that
every the rocket stages undergo during the flight, from liftoff to separation of the
side boosters, and to the separation of the first stage was not controlled by any personnel,
instead it has all been timed into the integral operation of the flight during manufacturing,
and it surely works in real life, just as intended.
The whole scenario was actually a ground-breaking event that had never happened before our eyes
in the history of rocket science.
Do you think spacex next launch will be successful?
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