Flacon Heavy
Hi friends, I hope you're fine? I am finally cured of the flu, it was atrocious, I had never been so sick, I even considered calling an ambulance to go to the hospital ...
Finally, I'm more or less postponed and I wondered what topic I was going to address for my return on Steemit? With the antibiotics I take, my brain is a little mush and not much inspiration but it was not counting on Elon Musk who made us vibrate to the sound of his rocket last night.
Did you follow his take off? It was amazing to see that !!
The most powerful rocket in the world, SpaceX's Falcon Heavy, began its first historic mission on Tuesday evening around 9:00 pm Belgian time, launching a cherry red sports car in the direction of Mars, with a model named after a man named piece of David Bowie.
In direction only, it will not be filed on the red planet, indeed, scientists are concerned that if there was life on Mars, the car could pollute its atmosphere and endanger this existing life.
Elon Musk, the founding genius of SpaceX, launched this project in 2011.
His ultimate dream is to colonize the planet Mars. The rocket is composed of three front Falcon9 rockets on which SpaceX perched a second stage and a cap for the payload. From this headgear came out the red convertible of Tesla which is the other company of Elon Musk, in which is played "Space Oddity" of David Bowie in loop.
Takeoff yesterday at Cape Canaveral was initially scheduled at 13:30 local time, before being delayed at 2:20 pm and 3:45 pm due to the high-altitude wind. On ignition, the 27 Merlin engines of the super-rocket generated a thrust of more than 2,500 tons, the equivalent of 18 Boeing 747 vertically.
Elon Musk has made his bet, he has already significantly reduced costs and revolutionized the ecosystem of space launches by returning his launchers on land and even sea. He now wants to enter the conquest of space in a new era.
What is also extraordinary is that we could follow all his live images on social networks, where they were followed by millions of people, subjugated by this vehicle floating in space.
Starman, the model in the vehicle, has his left arm nonchalantly resting on his door. On his dashboard is the message "Do not Panic!", A reference to the "Guide du voyageur galactique", a famous science fiction novel.
"The mission went as well as we hoped," Elon Musk said at a press conference.
After two minutes of flying on Tuesday, two of the Falcon Heavy's launchers broke off as planned from the central rocket which continued its course in space. Eight minutes and 20 seconds later, the two boosters landed almost simultaneously on two landing zones of Cape Canaveral just a few tens of meters apart. The third, however, sank in the Atlantic, diving a hundred meters from the barge where it was to land. The third booster penetrated the water at a speed of 480 km / h.
Now, Starman is in orbit around the Earth and if the expedition resists for five hours under the harsh conditions of Van Allen's radiation belt, the ship will then sail to Mars to orbit the Sun. His epic could then last a billion years and bring it to 400 million kilometers from the Earth, the equivalent of 10,000 times around our planet.
SpaceX claims that Falcon Heavy can launch twice as much payload as the most powerful existing operational rocket at one-third the price. If SpaceX wins, NASA can do without the help of the Russians and their Soyuz ship to send men into space. The administrator of NASA, Robert Lightfoot also reacted with enthusiasm to the launch.
"Everyone who works in this sector knows the effort required to get to the first flight of any vehicle and we recognize the tremendous accomplishment we have witnessed today," he said in a statement. With its power, only surpassed in history by NASA's Saturn V rocket that took astronauts from Apollo missions to the moon, the Falcon Heavy will be able to put up to 63.8 tons in low Earth orbit.
Elon Musk said Monday that it will not be the Falcon Heavy but another of his projects, the rocket "Big fucking rocket" that will transport humans to the Moon or Mars. The Falcon Heavy must just open the way.