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		MBCook on Feb 6, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches Oh, perhaps I have the name wrong. I meant the part connected to the payload with the Merlin engine designed for vacuum, above the three main rockets (the center of which must be the core).

pikchurn on Feb 6, 2018 | [–]

That's the 2nd stage. It's still attached to the payload I believe, so that they can test mid-course corrections to the transfer orbit.

skykooler on Feb 6, 2018 | [–]

It will relight its engine again in about five and a half hours to depart Earth orbit for interplanetary space.

MBCook on Feb 6, 2018 | [–]

Thanks.

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