SpaceX launches the Falcon Heavy, lighting up the Florida sky.

 After a three-year break, SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket successfully launched two satellites to geostationary orbit on its second attempt in as many months at 5:56 p.m. ET, from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

In addition to the twilight launch, which is known for creating amazing vistas due to various atmospheric phenomena, spectators on Florida's Space Coast were also treated to a double landing of the Falcon Heavy's two side boosters back at Cape Canaveral about eight minutes after liftoff.

When the rockets landed, sonic booms echoed throughout the sky. The centre core of the Falcon Heavy was dumped into the sea, and the two salvaged boosters will be repaired and used once again.

The enormous rocket, which is effectively three SpaceX Falcon rockets fastened together, is made to carry large payloads. Two satellites were launched by the Falcon Heavy as part of the semi-classified USSF-67 mission for the United States Space Force, which was propelled by 27 Merlin 1D engines. For this flight in 2020, SpaceX received $316 million in funding.

The launch was the year's first national security launch. Additionally, it was Falcon Heavy's second national security space launch after the USSF-44 mission in November, marking the rocket's fifth flight overall since its first voyage in 2018.

The two satellites on board will help with technological tests and military communications.

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The second Continuous Broadcast Augmenting SATCOM satellite to launch is the CBAS 2 satellite. The first took a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket to orbit in 2018.

Due to the nature of its job, specific information on the CBAS 2 satellite is limited, but the Space Force did reveal that it is intended to operate in geosynchronous orbit and will provide the military the ability to communicate through relay.

A group of technological demonstration missions, housed aboard the Northrop Grumman-built Long Duration Propulsive ESPA spacecraft, are also on board. This spacecraft carries out several experiments to assist lower the cost of space travel, much like a ride-sharing mission.