{"id":7511,"date":"2022-11-07T01:24:41","date_gmt":"2022-11-06T19:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=7511"},"modified":"2025-03-28T21:10:53","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T15:40:53","slug":"falcon-heavy-rocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/falcon-heavy-rocket\/","title":{"rendered":"Falcon Heavy Rocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Falcon Heavy Rocket:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>This is considered as a National Security Space Launch for the U.S. military.<\/li>\n<li>This is the fourth launch of the giant rocket system, and the first one in nearly three years since its last launch in 2019.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Specifications:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>SpaceX claims Falcon Heavy to be the most powerful rocket in the world today by a factor of two.<\/li>\n<li>With a lifting capacity of around 64 metric tonnes into orbit, Falcon Heavy can lift more than twice the payload of the next closest operational vehicle, the Delta IV Heavy.<\/li>\n<li>Falcon Heavy has 27 Merlin engines which together generate more than five million pounds of thrust at lift-off, equalling around eighteen 747 aircraft at full power.<\/li>\n<li>The rocket can lift the equivalent of a fully loaded 737 jetliner, complete with passengers, luggage and fuel, to orbit.<\/li>\n<li>Merlin is a family of rocket engines developed by SpaceX for use on its Falcon 1, Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launch vehicles.<\/li>\n<li>Merlin engines use RP-1 and liquid oxygen as rocket propellants in a gas-generator power cycle.<\/li>\n<li>These engines were designed for recovery and reuse.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/Home\/ShareArticle?OrgId=GQ6AFTR8A.1&amp;imageview=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Hindu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is considered as a National Security Space Launch for the U.S. military.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7512,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7511","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}