First Falcon Heavy Launch

The first launch of a Falcon Heavy is currently scheduled for late
this summer. According to Elon Musk, the test flight will be with two
reflown Falcon 9 Cores (plus one new one) and they may attempt to
recover the upper stage to prove full reusability, although he
considers the odds of that succeeding on the first attempt to be low.


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The first launch of a Falcon Heavy is currently scheduled for late
this summer. According to Elon Musk, the test flight will be with two
reflown Falcon 9 Cores (plus one new one) and they may attempt to
recover the upper stage to prove full reusability, although he
considers the odds of that succeeding on the first attempt to be low.

Hopefully nothing will happen to disturb that schedule.

Once Falcon Heavy is flying, the current Falcon 9 flights that have to
expend the first stage (due to heavy payloads) will be moved to Falcon
Heavy so that the boosters and the core (first) stage can be reused.

Jeff
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On 4/1/2017 11:46 PM, Jeff Findley wrote:
Hopefully nothing will happen to disturb that schedule.

Unfortunately, history predicts otherwise. SpaceX's published schedules
are historically optimistic, sometimes laughingly so.

That said, I'm looking forward to the day that the SpaceX heavy finally
launches, and I have little doubt that it will actually happen.