Not long after SpaceX’s big Falcon Heavy rocket got off the ground in 2018, it seemed to be forgotten in the hype around Elon Musk’s even bigger Starship rocket. Now ol’ Heavy is back in the headlines, with the company set to send a pair of payloads to orbit for the US Space Force with the rocket’s help for the first time in years.

Lately when we talk about “a big SpaceX rocket” we’re probably referring to Starship and its companion Super Heavy booster, which is the vehicle NASA hopes will be able to return astronauts to the moon and Musk dreams of using to build a society on Mars. But the most muscle in the SpaceX garage that’s actually made it to space is still Falcon Heavy, which last flew in 2019 and has only been used three times ever, including the demonstration that sent a Tesla toward the red planet.

The Falcon Heavy mission dubbed USSF 44 is the next launch on deck for pad 39-A at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center, currently set for Oct. 28. The Space Force describes it as a classified mission.

“There will be two payloads on board this mission — a larger, unconfirmed satellite and a micro-satellite named TETRA-1,” the military said in a statement on one of its YouTube Channels. “TETRA-1 is the first in a series of prototype GEO satellites launched by the US military, which will test systems procedures for future satellites.”

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If you’re looking for an existential sci-fi flick that’ll force you to question the fabric of reality, please follow my request…

Stop scrolling on whatever streaming service you’ve been staring at, pop onto Prime Videos and watch 2013’s low-budget sci-fi flick Coherence ASAP — it’s free for subscribers, right now. I know. I just watched it… for the fourth time.

The initial premise of Coherence is fairly simple. A few friends meet up for a dinner party the same night a mysterious comet is scheduled to fly overhead. It begins as many indie movies do, with a troubled love story, tension between exes and witty banter.

Then the power goes out. It gets weird. Act two.

Inexplicable events ensue while the ensemble of characters scramble to restore the power. Nothing is as it had seemed. Some start to doubt where they are, others are more concerned with who they are. This isn’t a movie about longtime pals’ small talk. It’s a tale about them coming face-to-face with the terrifying truth of their reality.

If I share any more, I’d be risking massive spoilers about the shocking revelations uncovered during the film. I can assure you, though, that the onscreen confusion is potent enough to force you to question your own sanity.

I’m only mildly exaggerating.

The next hour or so overflows with plot twists that could rival those of 2010’s Shutter Island. The film also expertly alludes to scientific — and rather philosophical — concepts that have probably