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Falcon Heavy

Falcon Heavy Name: Falcon Heavy
Manufacturer: SpaceX
Height: 70 m / 230 ft
Diameter: 3,7 m / 12 ft
Mass: 1,420 t / 3,130,000 lb
Capacity:
  • LEO: 63 t
  • GTO: 26 t
  • MTO: 16 t
Stages: 2,5
Boosters (2): 9 x Merlin 1D
Engines first stage: 9 x Merlin 1D
Engines second stage: 1 x Merlin 1D
Cost per launch: $90 million (reused)
Launch sites:
  • Cape Canaveral (USA)
  • Vandenberg Space Force Base (USA)
First launch: 06/02/2018
Launches:


Falcon 9

Falcon Heavy launch statistics

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This article was published by FutureSpaceFlight founder and chief editor Kris Christiaens. Kris Christiaens has been passionate and fascinated by spaceflight and space exploration all his life and has written hundreds of articles on space projects, the commercial space industry and space missions over the past 20 years for magazines, books and websites. In late 2021, he founded the website FutureSpaceFlight with the goal of promoting new space companies and commercial space projects and compiling news of these start-ups and companies on one website.