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Weighs more than 3 million pounds, same as 10 amtrak lo locomotives. it is an amazing cluster of three engine cores. each containing nine engines. those 27 engines give an amazing thrust, 5 million pounds at take-off. the same as 18 747s in full throttle. it is expensive, goes for $90 million. the company has bigger ambitions than launching satellites. elon musk wants to establish a lunar base and settlement on mars within the next few decades. these are two of my favorite guys joining me. forme...

This is a live look at cape canaveral in florida. spacex is about to launch a new rocket and its a very big deal. this is a falcon heavy rocket. it is right now the most powerful rocket on the planet times two. this is set to be the biggest and brightest and most impressive rocket launch since the space shuttles retired and spacex reports it to be the future of human space travel. this rocket has 28 merlin engines, five million pounds of thrust. the equivalent of strapping 18 747s together and i...

That. 27 engines on these three rockets. and they would put out the equivalent of 18, the thrust of 18 747s. it is just a massive amount of firepower coming from underneath these rockets. theres going to be tremendous vibrations on these rockets. so their concern, quite literally, the vibrations would be so extreme they would rip the rockets apart. will this thing get off the ground? we hope so. its unmanned. if it goes well, they would like to use these rockets to eventually put satellites into...

Launch its new falcon heavy spacecraft. and theres nothing about the falcon heavy thats ordinary. from its rocket boosters to its payload and its destination. our rachel crane has this story for us. >> reporter: spacex is about to make the ground seriously rumble. their new rocket the falcon heavy is about to launch for the first time and this thing is big. its lifting off from the historic kennedy center launch pad 39-a which is where apollo 11 launched humans to the moon, and once again the pa...

Correctly on sunday night. opening up the possibility that maybe this satellite itself was flawed. 16 months ago facebooks $200 million satellite went up in flames atop a space x falcon 9 rocket on the launchpad. space x is cleared for national security missions, recently launching the air forces x-37 b and space xs has everything else is still ago, including the demo flight of its falcon heavy. the equivalent of 18 747s. the launch is scheduled for later this month. space x intends to take peop...

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