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Falcon Heavy
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heavy-lift orbital launch vehicle made by SpaceX
Falcon Heavy is a powerful rocket made by SpaceX designed to carry very large payloads into space. It matters because it's one of the most capable rockets available for launching heavy cargo, space telescopes, or deep-space missions that require moving massive amounts of weight beyond Earth.
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- heavy-lift launch vehicle
- Country of origin
- United States
- Diameter
- 3.66
- Mass
- 1420788
- Manufacturer
- SpaceX
- Official website
- spacex.com/falcon-heavy
- Image
- Falcon-heavy-crop.jpg
- Height
- 70
- Width
- 12.2
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- Commons category
- Falcon Heavy
- payload mass
- 3500
- first flight
- 2018-02-06
- start point
- Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A
- topic's main category
- Category:Falcon Heavy
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Encyclopedic overview
Falcon Heavy is a super heavy-lift launch vehicle with partial reusability that can carry cargo into Earth orbit and beyond. It is designed, manufactured and launched by American aerospace company SpaceX.
The rocket consists of a center core on which two Falcon 9 boosters are attached, and a second stage on top of the center core. Falcon Heavy has the second highest payload capacity of any currently operational launch vehicle behind NASA's Space Launch System (SLS), and the fourth-highest capacity of any rocket to reach orbit, trailing behind the SLS, Energia and the Saturn V.
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