The rollout for SpaceX’s most powerful rocket, the Falcon Heavy, has been handled with a nearly concerning level of nonchalance. On July 28, Elon Musk announced on Twitter that its maiden voyage will be some time this November. Now, the SpaceX founder and self-proclaimed Boring Person has released an animation showing the rocket launch on his Instagram. The humans enjoy social media, and so Elon does, too.
Image: Still via Elon Musk/Instagram
“Lot that can go wrong in the November launch…” Musk cryptically wrote in the caption of the video, which appears to be a re-release of an animation that SpaceX first out in 2015.
According to SpaceX, the Falcon Heavy — which it’s touting as “the world’s most powerful rocket” — will be able to lift over 54 metric tonnes into orbit. It has three first-stage boosters that will be entirely reusable if all goes according to plan. Musk has previously said that he doesn’t expect the first Falcon Heavy mission to reach orbit, which is not exactly the vote of confidence you’d like to hear for a giant rocket. But seeing as this maiden launch has already been plagued by delays (it was initially planned for 2013), it’s probably good Musk is keeping our expectations tempered.
On Twitter, Musk elaborated on some of the other details, such as where the rocket will land after it launches from the recently-refurbished pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center.
“Side booster rockets return to Cape Canaveral,” he explained. “Center lands on droneship.”
While there’s still a lot we don’t know about the Falcon Heavy, one thing’s for sure: We’ll probably know more next time Ol’ Musky’s on one of his incoherent Twitter storms.