A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket launches on its mission with a classified payload for the U.S. Space Force at Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., November 1, 2022.Steve Nesius | ReutersElon Musk’s SpaceX on Tuesday launched the first Falcon Heavy mission in over three years, a towering rocket that is the most powerful currently in operation.SpaceX’s rocket is carrying the classified USSF-44 mission for the U.S. Space Force, which is also the first operational national security mission for Falcon Heavy. Its most recent previous launch was the Space Test Program-2 (STP-2) mission in June 2019, which carried experimental satellites on a demonstration flight for the Pentagon.The mission took off at 9:41 a.m. ET from a launchpad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.Sign up here to receive weekly editions of CNBC’s Investing in Space newsletter.While Falcon Heavy’s base is reusable, the company landed just the side pair o …
