SpaceX's Falcon Heavy, the world's most powerful active rocket, lifted off for the first time in more than three years on Tuesday from Florida's Cape Canaveral, with Elon Musk's company sending a group of satellites into orbit for the U.S. Space Force.

The rocket system, representing three Falcon 9 boosters strapped side-by-side, lifted off at a SpaceX launch pad. The rocket's two side boosters were due to land in synchrony on adjacent concrete slabs along Florida's east coast roughly eight minutes after liftoff.

The launch from Cape Canaveral, Fla., which the Space Force has designated USSF-44, marked the fourth flight of SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy, the most powerful rocket currently flying.

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