Video of the Day: synchronous planting rocket boosters SpaceX Falcon Heavy

Two booster at the same time returned to the land, and the central unit later sat on a floating platform in the ocean.

Today, April 12 at 01:35 Moscow time, the company SpaceX Elon Musk launched superheavy Falcon Heavy rocket from the Baikonur NASA in Florida. Around the third minute of filter Falcon Heavy separated side accelerators minute later - the central upper stage of the first stage. All three blocks have made a successful landing, and the second stage with the payload successfully went into orbit.

Here are two side booster synchronously go on a special landing fields on the US Air Force base at Cape Canaveral.

Falcon Heavy's side boosters land on Landing Zones 1 and 2 pic.twitter.com/nJCCaVHOeo

- SpaceX (@SpaceX) April 12, 2019

The central unit sat on a floating barge «Of Course I Still Love You» in the Atlantic Ocean.

Falcon Heavy's center core has landed on the Of Course I Still Love You droneship! pic.twitter.com/pNqwMWr50d

- SpaceX (@SpaceX) April 11, 2019

Broadcast launch was held at the official channel SpaceX on YouTube. If you missed it, you can see the replay. This is something. The return side accelerators starts at 27 minutes of video.

This is the first commercial flight for superheavy carrier. Falcon Heavy delivered into orbit geostationary communications satellite Arabsat 6A to Saudi Arabia.

Successful deployment of Arabsat-6A to geosynchronous transfer orbit confirmed-completing Falcon Heavy's first commercial mission! pic.twitter.com/KeKTP99xvv

- SpaceX (@SpaceX) April 11, 2019

In the past year I took a test flight Falcon Heavy, when the missile as a test load Send private car Elon Musk tesla Roadster in the direction of Mars. During SpaceX tests failed to return the side rocket boosters, but the central unit crashed, crashing into the landing platform in the ocean. Apparently, the company took into account their mistakes, because the new start-up turned out to be a complete success - this time all three segments of the first stage landed perfectly, and they plan to use again.