A SpaceX Falcon Heavy and its 27 Merlin engines are positioned in a hangar at Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, preparing to support the first National Reconnaissance Office mission using that launch vehicle.
Credit: SpaceX
SpaceX posted several images on social media Sept. 28 showing its Falcon Heavy rocket and its 27 Merlin engines, sitting in the hangar at Launch-Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, awaiting its next customer. That customer had made itself known earlier that day: The National...
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