- Elon Musk's company SpaceX has launched its Falcon Heavy rocket from a platform at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, with two US Armed Forces satellites on board.

The powerful Falcon Heavy rocket of the private company SpaceX took off this Tuesday from Cape Canaveral (Florida).

The Falcon Heavy, the largest rocket in the world, takes off again for a secret mission: this has been the flight

The powerful Falcon Heavy rocket of the private company SpaceX took off this Tuesday from Cape Canaveral (Florida) with two satellites of the US Armed Forces at its peak.

On a misty morning, the world's most powerful operational rocket lifted off from a pad at the Kennedy Space Center at the scheduled time, 9:41 a.m. local time (1:41 p.m. GMT), and two and a half minutes later, after exceeding the speed of sound, two side rockets of the Falcon Heavy's first stage separated.

Four minutes after liftoff, the first-stage core rocket also separated and the rocket's second stage continued on its planned path for this mission, called USSF-44 and commissioned by the US Space Force.

Shortly after eight minutes of launch, the two side rockets successfully landed close to each other on a pad at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station for later reuse, marking the 150th and 151st landings by the private signature of their rockets.

Today's launch is the fourth flight of the Falcon Heavy, which consists of three Falcon 9 rocket cores forming a compact soaring booster powered by 27 Merlin engines with the power of 18 commercial aircraft.

This 70-meter-high and 12-meter-wide rocket made its first test flight in 2018, when it put a Tesla car into space, which was followed by two other launches in April and June 2019, the last of which sent a group of experimental satellites commissioned by the US Armed Forces and NASA.

In this Tuesday's launch, the central part of this trio will not be recovered and will fall into the Atlantic.

About six hours after liftoff, the two "classified" satellites, for which no information has been released, will enter geostationary orbit about 20,000 miles (32,000 km) above the Earth's equator.

Authorities at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station warned neighbors that the launch would produce a "sonic boom" both during takeoff and landing of the two side rockets.

More flights await the Falcon Heavy, especially after NASA awarded Elon Musk's company a $255 million contract in July for the 2026 launch of the Nancy Grace Roman space telescope by means of the Falcon Heavy.

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