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Falcon Heavy Main Engine Cutoff – Kennedy Space Center [1]

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Date: 2024-06-25  

The Falcon Heavy center core’s nine Merlin engines have reached cutoff, and the booster has separated from the second stage.

Coming up next, the Falcon Heavy’s second stage engine starts up. Following that, the protective payload fairings will be jettisoned revealing NOAA’s (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) GOES-U (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite U) to the vacuum of space for the first time as it makes its way to geosynchronous orbit.

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[1] Url: https://blogs.nasa.gov/kennedy/2024/06/25/falcon-heavy-main-engine-cutoff/

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