SpaceX is set to launch the company's Falcon Heavy rocket on its inaugural commercial mission on Wednesday evening.
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This is the second flight for Falcon Heavy, which became the most powerful rocket in use in the world after SpaceX's successful test flight in February 2018. That launch was purely demonstration — Thursday represents the first revenue-generating flight of Falcon Heavy. A few minutes after liftoff, the three lower"booster" stages of the rocket will separate, flip and return to Earth. The boosters on each side of the rocket will aim to land at SpaceX's concrete pads on the Florida coastline, while the larger center booster plans to attempt a landing on the company's autonomous barge in the Atlantic Ocean. Both side boosters successfully landed after SpaceX's first test flight, but the center booster ran out of fuel and crashed in the water.
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