SpaceX is one of the private companies related to the world of space that has been giving the most talk in recent months, especially since Elon Musk publicly commented on his desire to put a man on the planet Mars in the next decade. Far from this, the truth is that there is still a long way to go although the first step has already been taken with the design and manufacture of the new Falcon Heavy, the company's most powerful rocket.
Precisely the idea behind the creation and design of the Falcon Heavy is that of join no less than three Falcon 9 cores together so that, thanks to the combined power of all these units, the resulting rocket can transport to lower earth orbit some 63.500 kilograms of weight thus becoming one of the most powerful units developed by humans in all of history, which would have enough power to take us to Mars at a certain time.
The first Falcon Heavy will conduct field tests in November
Why use three Falcon 9s to build the Falcon Heavy? The idea of SpaceX is not to invest a huge amount of money in the development of a new rocket, but to take advantage of the synergies of having precisely a model like the Falcon 9, already developed and with incredible capabilities, remember that after the launch already is able to return to Earth. Thanks to these qualities it is expected that, once a Falcon Heavy is launched, each of the three parts of it can return independently to Earth in order to reuse them in other missions.
Now, like everything in life and despite the use of proven structures, the truth is that all beginnings are difficult And, in this direction we have to talk about the statements of Elon Musk himself where he warns that it is most likely that, during the first test of the Falcon Heavy, scheduled for November of this year, the rocket explodes seconds after take off since the team of developers and engineers working on this project is having a lot of problems due to the complexity of a rocket like this.
Whether or not the new SpaceX rocket may have problems during its takeoff, the truth is that for the company this is nothing more than 'see light at the end of the tunnel'since, finally, it seems that they have many of the technical problems solved which will allow them end delays of a project that, according to its initial estimate, should have taken off for the first time in 2013 or 2014, which will finally meet this objective in 2018.
SpaceX has become one of the most valuable private companies on the planet
Far from unexpected delays, something that leads to the need to invest much more money in a project, the truth is that SpaceX is in great financial health, especially with regard to investors. Not in vain, this very morning, as announced by the New York Times, has become one of the most valuable private companies in the world by managing to raise other 350 million in new funds, an investment that puts the value of the company at $ 21.000 billion.
According to several of the investors, we have to understand that the true value of the company, today, is not in the promise that in the future they will be in charge of taking us to Mars, nothing is further from reality, the interest of The investors in it is that SpaceX, over time, has become one of the main players on the planet when it comes to taking goods into space Thanks to the fact that it is trusted by important clients such as NASA, the United States government or several of the most important satellite manufacturing companies today.