Falcon 9 Will Lunch on December
Elon Musk’s last rocket announced to lunch on Thursday, December 19. The rocket that will launch is slightly %30 percent more powerful than the previous rocket that exploded 2 minutes after the launch in late June.
Elon Musk’s last rocket announced to lunch on Thursday, December 19. The rocket that will launch is slightly %30 percent more powerful than the previous rocket that exploded 2 minutes after the launch in late June. The rocket will carry satellites from Orbcomm ( a U.S. Company ) into Earth orbit. The new rocket also designed to land vertically, that is the most important feature of this rocket and if Elon Musk wants to SpaceX have a future. This launch and landing should do perfectly.
HEIGHT:70m / 229.6 ft
MASS: 541,300kg / 1,194,000 lb
PAYLOAD TO LEO: 13,150kg / 28,991 lb
DIAMETER: 3.7m / 12 ft
PAYLOAD TO GTO: 4,850kg / 10,692 lb
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Owen Castellanos
Owen Castellanos is the Hardware & Gaming Reporter at TrendinTech, where he tests graphics cards, processors, consoles and peripherals and follows the games industry, from the major publishers to independent studios. He previously wrote reviews and benchmarks for Tom's Hardware and contributed features to PC Gamer, covering everything from laptop testing to the economics of game development. Owen holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and attends CES in Las Vegas, Computex in Taipei and the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco each year to meet chipmakers and developers. He writes for readers who want to know whether a product is worth the money, and he is not shy about saying when it is not.
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