SpaceX finishes testing Falcon Heavy’s first stage cores

Falcon Heavy ultimately amounts to three Falcon 9 rockets linked together (one of which is strengthened), but it should be crucial to SpaceX’s future business. Right now, a solo Falcon 9 can’t carry more than 50,000lbs on a one-way trip to low Earth orbit. The Heavy system, however, will haul 140,700lbs into that same orbit, …

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