SpaceX Falcon Heavy successfully started from the Kennedy cosmodrome. Photographers and spectators gathered at the launch site to become witnesses of this majestic moment.
The main goal of the mission is to deliver a spacecraft to a Psyche metal asteroid. It is planned that the spacecraft will enter the orbit of the asteroid in 2029, becoming the first apparatus examining the metal-containing asteroid. Asteroid Psyche is in orbit around the Sun between Mars and Jupiter, and NASA intends to study its composition.
People gathered on the coast of the Canaveral National Seashore to watch the launch. After the spaceship left the atmosphere of the Earth, it was clear how the smoke from the rocket rises into the sky, and the flame was still glowing.
Successful landing of the side missiles deserves special attention. On the beach in the Cape Canaral, crowds of people watched the first of two side missiles land eight minutes after the launch. Both side speed accelerators Falcon Heavy successfully landed on the territory of the Air Force space base in the Cape Canaveral, Florida, on October 13, 2023.
This launch occurred shortly after the start of the NASA PSYCE spacecraft from the Kennedy cosmodrome.