A heavy-lift launch vehicle built by SpaceX from three Falcon 9 first-stage cores strapped together, the most powerful operational rocket in the world at its 2018 debut. Its maiden flight famously carried a Tesla Roadster into a solar orbit, and all three of its boosters are designed to land and be reused.
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Vehicle ClassHeavy-lift partially reusable launch vehicle 2 Manufacturer First Flight Date StatusOperational, flown for the U.S. government's heaviest national-security and NASA payloads. 2 Payload to LEO (kg)Approximately 63,800 kg in expendable configuration. 2 Status
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Source Falcon Heavy (Wikipedia)
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1. Falcon Heavy (Wikipedia)
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Falcon Heavy is a super heavy-lift launch vehicle with partial reusability that can carry cargo into Earth orbit and beyond.
Has Vehicle Class: Reusable Launch Vehicle, Lead sentence
Falcon Heavy is a super heavy-lift launch vehicle with partial reusability that can carry cargo into Earth orbit and beyond.
View the Source2. Encyclopedia Astronautica
http://astronautix.com/f/falcon9heavy.html
The Falcon 9 Heavy would consist of a standard Falcon 9 v1.1 with two additional Falcon 9 first stages as liquid strap-on boosters.
- Operated By: SpaceX
- Part Of: Falcon 9
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