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Amazing SpaceX Animated Video Depicts the Future of Reusable Rockets

A new video from SpaceX shows the spaceflight company's incredible plans for a reusable mega-rocket.
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/ Source: Space.com

A new video from SpaceX shows the spaceflight company's incredible plans for a reusable mega-rocket.

The 2.5-minute Falcon Heavy rocket animation shows the spaceflight firm's plans to land the three boosters of its giant rocket back on Earth after launching missions to orbit. The three nine-engine boosters are equivalent to the booster used is used to power the core stage of the Falcon 9 rocket used to launch payloads to space currently. SpaceX representatives expect to start flights of the Falcon 9 Heavy later this year.

"When Falcon Heavy lifts off later this year, it will be the most powerful operational rocket in the world by a factor of two," SpaceX representatives wrote in a video description. "Thrust at liftoff is equal to approximately eighteen 747 aircraft operating simultaneously." [How SpaceX's Falcon Heavy Rocket Works (Infographic)]