Current Affairs - Science - Discussion

Space Exploration Technologies Corp (SpaceX) launched a hefty rocket with 24 payload military and scientific research satellites with a deep space atomic clock, solar sail, clean and green rocket fuel, and even human ashes, including an astronaut. The third flight of a Falcon Heavy rocket (first ordered by the military) was launched from NASA's (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, the US. The Defense Department mission will provide data to certify the Falcon Heavy and reused boosters for future national security launches. NASA had signed up for the rocket along with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Air Force Research Laboratory and the Planetary Society and Celestis Inc.