Falcon Heavy
Three Falcon 9 first stages strapped side by side, 27 Merlin engines lit together at liftoff, under a single second stage. The two side boosters usually fly back to land in Florida while the centre core is often expended on the heaviest missions. It launched NASA's Europa Clipper toward Jupiter in 2024 and the Roman Space Telescope in 2026.
Key figures
- Builder
- SpaceX
- Status
- In service
- First flight
- 2018
- Height
- 70 m
- Diameter
- 3.7 m
- Mass at launch
- 1,420 t
- Liftoff thrust
- 22,821 kN
- Payload to low Earth orbit
- 63.8 t
- Payload to geostationary transfer orbit
- 26.7 t