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Falcon Heavy Test Flight

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SpaceX’s Elon Musk confirms the second stage completed the second of its three burns on today’s test flight.

 

Upper stage restart nominal, apogee raised to 7000 km. Will spend 5 hours getting zapped in Van Allen belts & then attempt final burn for Mars.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 6, 2018

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Vi må altså vente 5 timer for at få resultatet efter den sidste raketaffyring.

 

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Multiple visual reports from Southern California suggest the Falcon Heavy’s upper stage, the Tesla Roadster and Starman may have completed its engine firing to escape Earth’s gravitational bonds and head into solar orbit.

The sightings shared via social media and by our readers indicate the rocket flew in the southern sky as viewed from the Los Angeles area at approximately 9:30 p.m. EST (6:30 p.m. PST; 0230 GMT). That is in line with the expected track of the upper stage.

One reader told Spaceflight Now the object looked like a comet as it appeared in the south-southeast sky in Los Angeles, at an elevation of about 25 degrees above the horizon. The object was moving to the east-southeast.

Elon Musk has confirmed a good third burn by the Falcon Heavy’s upper stage, sending the Tesla and its Starman mannequin passenger out of Earth orbit and into the solar system.

Third burn successful. Exceeded Mars orbit and kept going to the Asteroid Belt.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 7, 2018

Den når næsten ud til Ceres:

Third burn successful. Exceeded Mars orbit and kept going to the Asteroid Belt.

 

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