Falcon Heavy static fire
The first SpaceX Falcon Heavy performs a static fire test Jan. 24 at Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39A.

SpaceX carried out a static fire test of the its first Falcon Heavy launch vehicle Jan. 24, which the company’s founder said clears the way for its upcoming launch.

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Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The...