SpaceX Successfully Finished Ground Tests for Its New Heavy-Lift Rocket

SpaceX announced via Twitter late Friday that it had completed ground testing of the first stage boosters for the Falcon Heavy, its new heavy-lift rocket.

The Falcon Heavy, which is scheduled to get its first full-fledged test launch this Fall, is a key component of SpaceX CEO Elon Musk’s hyper-ambitious plan to colonize Mars.

No results of the test have been publicized. But the company noted in an Instagram post that one of the boosters used in the Falcon Heavy test had previously carried a Falcon 9 resupply mission to the International Space Station.

Falcon Heavy is essentially three Falcon 9s yoked together, though that’s much more complex than it sounds.

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