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When Falcon Heavy lifts off at 1:30 pm on 6 Feb 2018, it will be the most powerful operational rocket in the world by a factor of two.  It has the ability to lift into orbit nearly 64 metric tons (141,000 lb) - a mass greater than a 737 jetliner loaded with passengers, crew, luggage and fuel.  Falcon Heavy's first stage is composed of three Falcon 9 nine-engine cores whose 27 Merlin engines together generate more than 5 million pounds of thrust at liftoff, equal to approximately eighteen 747 aircraft.  Falcon Heavy can lift more than twice the payload of the next closest operational vehicle, at one-third the cost.  Following liftoff, the two side boosters separate from the center core and return to landing sites for future re-use.  The center core, traveling further and faster than the side boosters, also returns for reuse, but lands on a drone ship located in the Atlantic Ocean.  At max velocity the Roadster will travel 11 km/s (7 miles/s) and travel 400 million km (250 million miles) from Earth.  

Why are they sending a car to space?  "It's a test flight of a new huge rocket.  Normally these test flight carry something to simulate mass (like a block of concrete or steel) as there is a significant chance it will blow up.  No paying customers want their satellites costing 100s of millions of dollars on top of that thing the first time she goes."   The SpaceX YouTube channel will have a livestream of the launch, which is scheduled for for 1:30 pm EST.   Music: "Life on Mars" by David Bowie.

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