The American company SpaceX on Wednesday successfully conducted a firing test the newest Falcon Heavy launch vehicle
The first static firing test of the Falcon Heavy is completed, at another step closer to the test flight, the company said the RIA Novosti, published in the "Twitter".
SpaceX also posted a 22-second video, in which visible standing upright on the launch rocket site. After starting the engine launch pad envelop white vapor clouds.
earlier it was reported, that "for the first time during the test will simultaneously work all 27 a first stage rocket engine for 15 seconds ".Ozhidaetsya, that the first test launch of the carrier rocket Falcon Heavy, Digging that builds for the future manned space flights and missions to the Moon and Mars, may take place at the end of yanvarya.Traditsionno SpaceX conducts fire test a few days before the start of. Nevertheless, possible date of the first flight has not yet announced.
meanwhile, “Russian newspaper” clarifies some of this information. It was not about the missile tests, but only on for her engines. SpaceX has successfully tested engines of its new rocket Falcon Heavy. “It was the first static firing test. Now we are one step closer to first flight”, – I wrote the company on Twitter.
According to TASS, 27 new engines tested on the site named the Kennedy Space Center in the US state of Florida. The head of SpaceX Elon Musk said, what “everything went well”.In early February, to be held the first test launch of Falcon Heavy. This booster will be the most powerful in the world. It will be able to deliver in orbit a load of more than 54 tonnes.
Website skyships.ru reminds all interested in this topic missiles creation story.
AT 2010 SpaceX, the company began operating its primary at the moment Falcon rocket 9. One year later, head of the company – billionaire Elon Musk at a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington officially announced the project of creation of the newest heavy-class rocket, by its power is second only to the Moon Complex Saturn 5 – Apollo.
anticipated, that the first demonstration launch of Falcon Heavy will be implemented with the Vandenberg base, California already 2013 year. but, difficulty with the first missile launches Falcon 9 and the need for rework (to 2016 году Falcon 9 It was twice modified to version v.1.1 and up to version FT) SpaceX was forced to stretch to work on heavy rocket. At the end 2015 , the first rocket launch was scheduled for autumn 2016 of the year. presumably, the cost of getting to 6,4 tons of payload into geosynchronous transfer orbit will be about $90-100 million.
Falcon Heavy – Two-stage liquid rocket heavy class, It is equipped with two lateral accelerators for packet Scheme.
The first stage of Falcon Heavy rocket is the first stage of modification of the rocket Falcon 9 FT, already in use SpaceX. As the missile base, This stage is equipped with a 9 liquid rocket engine Merlin 1D, arranged in a circular pattern Octaweb (1 in the center of the engine and 8 Around him). Step structurally reinforced and has additional fastening for hanging two side accelerators.
Lateral boosters also are modifications of the basic Falcon 9 FT, but structurally simplified in comparison with the central module, as the load on them in flight below. The power plant is similar to the central module and the rocket Falcon 9 FT – 9 Merlin 1D engines.
In this way, the first stage of the three modules equipped with a total of 27 Merlin 1D engines total thrust 20418 kN at sea level and 22279 kN in vacuo.
The second stage of Falcon Heavy rockets standard for all of the family Falcon 9. Equipped with a single-engine Merlin 1D Vacuum, with a rated operating time 397 seconds. Technical characteristics of the engine allow you to run it many times during the flight.
