The powerful rocket is scheduled to lift off Tuesday (Nov. 1) at 9:40 a.m. ET.
first stages. A payload-carrying second stage sits atop the central booster.
Like the Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy first stages are designed to land vertically after liftoff and for future reuse. But on USSF-44, only the outer two boosters will come back to Earth in one piece. The central booster will ditch into the sea, its propellant tapped out by the challenging mission, which will carry its payloads toward distant geostationary orbit.
USSF-44 will be just the fourth-ever Falcon Heavy mission and its first since June 2019. The rocket has a lot of flights on its manifest; the dry spell is primarily due to
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