SpaceX Launches Space Station Docking Port for NASA

The request is being done in preparation for the maiden launch of the company’s Falcon Heavy, which, as the name so clearly indicates, is SpaceX’s biggest, heaviest, and most ambitious rocket in production. It probably also depends on whether its request for the Space Coast landing pads gets approved. And so the company told The Orland Sentinel that it was asking the government for permission to build two more landing pads near its original facility.

In addition to planning for the Falcon Heavy project and an expedition to Mars, SpaceX is planning to launch another rocket that will return to space after being recovered successfully.

Landing the rocket is a secondary goal.

SpaceX has demonstrated multiple times that its reusable rockets are capable of making it back to Earth safely after completing their mission.

Those calls were placed despite SpaceX issuing a warning a week before the launch, plus extensive warnings in the local press about the landing attempt. The private spaceflight company says that it might attempt to land its Falcon Heavy rockets on one of its drone barges – a protocol that the SpaceX has almost perfected in the past year.

To save a cargo-laden Dragon in case of a launch accident, SpaceX added the option of releasing the capsule’s parachutes in just such an emergency. The Falcon Heavy is essentially three separate rockets combined together and SpaceX wants to recover all of them after the mission. The only problem is that the boosters don’t have the capacity to hold enough fuel for safely landing back to the launch pads, which is why the company is also trying to flawless their ocean landings-a more cost-effective way of landing rockets. The launch of this rocket is scheduled for September 2016.

Elon Musk confirmed the triple landing plan on Twitter, saying that two of the rockets would land simultaneously, while the third would arrive shortly after.