{"id":31095,"date":"2018-10-27T12:08:03","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T06:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=31095"},"modified":"2018-10-27T12:08:03","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T06:38:03","slug":"magnificent-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/magnificent-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Magnificent launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-opinion\/magnificent-launch\/article22820323.ece\"><b>Magnificent launch<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Context:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On February 7, U.S. tech and automobiles billionaire Elon Musk made history when the Falcon Heavy, the world\u2019s most powerful rocket, was successfully launched by SpaceX<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>About Falcon Heavy:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Falcon Heavy is a large cargo-lifting rocket developed by private spaceflight company SpaceX<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The rocket lifted<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">f<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">rom Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Cape Canaveral, Florida, using Launch Complex 39A<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The rocket\u2019s payload was a cherry-red 2008 Tesla Roadster electric car <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Roadster became the first automobile in deep space.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The rocket is 230 ft tall with 2,500 tonnes of thrust<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The cost per launch is $90 million<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Significance:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The launch of Falcon Heavy opens a new frontier in space exploration, particularly interplanetary missions and manned missions to the moon in the next few years and possibly to Mars in the next couple of decades.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Way ahead:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As of now, Falcon Heavy might not be a direct competitor to established space agencies for launching communication and other satellites as the focus is on the manned interplanetary mission. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is a great business opportunity in launching data-gathering satellites at a lower cost while profiting from manned missions is uncertain.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Magnificent launch Context: On February 7, U.S. tech and automobiles billionaire Elon Musk made history when the Falcon Heavy, the world\u2019s most powerful rocket, was successfully launched by SpaceX About Falcon Heavy: The Falcon Heavy is a large cargo-lifting rocket developed by private spaceflight company SpaceX The rocket lifted from Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/magnificent-launch\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Magnificent launch<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704954152},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}