World’s Most Powerful Rocket

World's most powerful rocket

Question: Which one of the given is the world’s most powerful rocket launched recently by an American company?
(a) Falcon Heavy
(b) Space x
(c) Teslar
(d) Zip2
Answer: (a)
Related Facts:

  • On February 7th, 2018, the world’s most powerful rocket ‘Falcon Heavy’ was launched by the American company ‘Space X’.
  • This mission is a major achievement of Space X Company in the space scenario because no such powerful rocket launch has ever happened.
  • The biggest contribution in making this mission successful is of the billionaire Elon Musk, businessman and founder of the ‘Space X’ company.
  • Musk’s dream is to settle the human habitation on Mars.
  • It is noteworthy that earlier, Company space X had made an unsuccessful attempt to launch the rocket.
  • ‘Falcon Heavy’ was launched from the John F. Kennedy Space Center, NASA’s American Space Association, located in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
  • The Rocket was launched from the same ‘LC-39A’ platform of the Kennedy Space Center from which the ‘Apollo mission’ was launched.
  • It is important to mention that through the Apollo Mission, journey on the moon by the first person was stared.
  • The specialty of ‘Falcon Heavy’ is that a sports car of Tesla Company has also been sent with it.
  • This car will be the first car to reach the orbit of space.
  • It is mention worthy that Elon Musk is the chairman of ‘Tesla’ company too.
  • At the time of launch, ‘Falcon Heavy’ has a speed of 11 kilometers per second (Escape Velocity).
  • The ‘Falcon Heavy’ rocket is 70 meters long and can established 64 tons of weight in space orbit.
  • In terms of capacity Falcon Heavy is at second place after ‘Saturn-V Aircraft’.
  • It is significant that in the 60’s and 70’s, ‘Saturn-V Aircraft’ was used only during Apollo Expeditions.

Reference:
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-42950957
https://www.theguardian.com/science/live/2018/feb/06/spacex-falcon-heavy-launch-elon-musk-live-updates
http://money.cnn.com/2018/02/06/technology/future/spacex-falcon-heavy-launch-mainbar/index.html