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Another First For SpaceX: Successfully Completes Its First Commercial Mission Using Falcon Heavy Rocket
SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. (Wikimedia Commons)
“On Thursday, April 11 at 6:35 p.m. EDT, Falcon Heavy launched the Arabsat-6A satellite from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The satellite was deployed approximately 34 minutes after liftoff,” said a company statement.
A Series Of Firsts
Founded in 2002, the company has gained worldwide attention for a series of historic milestones. It is the only private company capable of returning a spacecraft from low Earth orbit, which it first accomplished in 2010.
It should be noted that Falcon Heavy is the world’s most powerful operational rocket by a factor of two.
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