Falcon Heavy

activeReusable

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Specifications

Status: active
Height: 70 m
Diameter: 12.2 m
Mass: 1,400,000 kg
Stages: 3
Thrust: 22,819 kN
Payload to LEO: 63,800 kg
Payload to GTO: 26,700 kg
First flight: 2018-02-06
Total launches: 12
Success / Fail: 12 / 0

The Falcon Heavy is a variant of the Falcon 9 full thrust launch vehicle and consists of a standard Falcon 9 rocket core, with two additional boosters derived from the Falcon 9 first stage.

Propulsion

First stage

27×Merlin 1D845 kN

RP-1 / LOX · gas-generator

SpaceXIsp 311s (vac)since 20139 per core × 3 cores

Second stage

Merlin 1D Vacuum981 kN

RP-1 / LOX · gas-generator

SpaceXIsp 348s (vac)since 2013

Specifications

Propulsion

First stage

Second stage

Payloads it launched