SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket launches after three-year hiatus with secret US sats
Another member of the payload is the LDPE-2 bird built by Northrop Grumman again for military tests.
The Elon Musk company's most popular vehicle by far is the Falcon 9, which has flown hundreds of times sending different types of payloads to space. Made up of three Falcon 9 engine cores, with the central one upgraded, the Falcon Heavy is more powerful and capable of generating five million pounds of thrust at liftoff.
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