Falcon Heavy Back For SpaceX’s First Direct-To-GEO Mission

Credit: SpaceX
CAPE CANAVERAL—A triple-core Falcon Heavy, currently the most powerful rocket operating today, lifted off from a fog-shrouded Kennedy Space Center on Nov. 1 on a challenging and classified mission for the U.S. Space Force. With the U.S. Space Force-44 (USSF-44) mission, SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy...
Irene Klotz

Irene Klotz is Senior Space Editor for Aviation Week, based in Cape Canaveral. Before joining Aviation Week in 2017, Irene spent 25 years as a wire service reporter covering human and robotic spaceflight, commercial space, astronomy, science and technology for Reuters and United Press International.

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