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Falcon Heavy is a super heavy-lift launch vehicle [b] with partial reusability that can carry cargo into Earth orbit, and beyond. It is designed, manufactured and launched by American aerospace company SpaceX.
Falcon Heavy is composed of three reusable Falcon 9 nine-engine cores whose 27 Merlin engines together generate more than 5 million pounds of thrust at liftoff, equal to approximately eighteen 747 aircraft.
Falcon Heavy is a heavy-lift derivative of Falcon 9, combining a strengthened central core with two Falcon 9 first stages as side boosters. [1] Falcon 9 at Dish Network's Littleton, Colorado office. The Falcon design features reusable first-stage boosters, which land either on a ground pad near the launch site or on a drone ship at sea. [2]
A fully expendable SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket lifts off from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, carrying the agency’s largest spacecraft bound for a planetary mission.
NASA's Psyche asteroid probe — the first interplanetary spacecraft to fly atop a Falcon Heavy — launched almost exactly one year ago, on Oct. 13, 2023, and required full use of the...
The most comprehensive, up-to-date list of upcoming Falcon Heavy rocket launches. Search the 7 scheduled launches, with filters to easily find specific Falcon Heavy missions. Perfect for researchers and space enthusiasts.
SpaceX perfected first-stage landings with its workhorse Falcon 9 rockets, successfully recovering 352 such boosters to date with powered touchdowns on landing pads or off-shore droneships. The...
SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy — a towering, three-pronged vehicle that is the most powerful operational rocket in the world — returned to the skies on Tuesday for the first time since mid-2019.
FALCON HEAVY FIRST FLIGHT. On February 7, 2018, Falcon Heavy made its first launch to orbit, successfully landing 2 of its 3 boosters and launching its payload to space. With more than 5 million pounds of thrust at liftoff, Falcon Heavy is one of the most capable rockets flying.
With its highly anticipated first flight behind it, the Falcon Heavy is now the world's most powerful operational rocket by a factor of two, capable of lifting 140,000 pounds of cargo into low...