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The Falcon 9 rocket is to be launched from Cape

Jan. 4, 2019 by Devin Jones

The Falcon 9 rocket is to be launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station from Cape Canaveral, Florida at 1:30pm ET at a high speed of about 200,000 miles per hour, and launch from Kennedy Space Center at 7:30pm ET at a high speed of about 1,000,000 miles per hour.

The Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to deliver about 3,400 pounds of payload to the test site in Florida for its initial assembly and the test flight. SpaceX plans to launch the Falcon 9 system on a Falcon 9A rocket on its Falcon Heavy rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

SpaceX will have approximately four Falcon 9A rockets to use on a test flight. The first two are to land on a land-based rocket, and the third is to land on an orbiting orbit on a surface orbit.

After liftoff, the third Falcon 9A should launch the first payload back to Earth and land on the launch pad and the Falcon Heavy rocket. The next two Falcon 9A flights should take place over the next two years or so.

The launch pad will then be deployed to the pad, then used to launch the second payload on the Falcon Heavy rocket.

As of the time the first Falcon 9 rocket was put into service, the first flight of the first two Falcon 9A systems had a maximum thrust of over 20,000 pounds, just shy of the maximum payloads needed by Orbital ATK's Atlas 5 spacecraft, which is scheduled to fly into orbit in 2017.