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Demo (Test Flight)

Falcon Heavy

SpaceX

Launch Status
Success

Weather Forecast During Launch


According to weather officials, there’s a 90% chance of favorable weather conditions at the time of the launch.

Crew


Starman

Starman

  • Role: Space Traveller
  • Nationality: Earthling
  • First Flight: 02/06/2018
  • Last Flight: 02/06/2018

“Starman” is a mannequin dressed in a spacesuit occupying the driver’s seat of Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster, launched to an heliocentric orbit on Falcon Heavy’s inaugural launch.

Mission


Demo Flight 1 (Maiden Flight)

  • Type: Test Flight
  • Orbit: Heliocentric N/A
  • Launch Cost: $90,000,000

This will be the inaugural flight of the Falcon Heavy. The test payload will be SpaceX CEO Elon Musk’s midnight cherry Tesla Roadster playing Space Oddity. Destination: An elliptical, heliocentric orbit. Apoapsis: Around Mars’ orbital distance.

Demo Flight 1 (Maiden Flight)

Location


Launch Complex 39A

Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

Launch Complex 39A has witnessed the launch of 186 rockets, including 185 orbital launch attempts, while Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA, has been the site for 244 rocket launches.

Launch Complex 39A

Rocket


SpaceX Falcon Heavy

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.

Falcon Heavy

Landing


Strap-On Booster B1025

Booster B1025 last launched 02/06/2018 and has seen 2 successful launches and landings. Retired.

Landing Zone 2 – LZ-2

LZ-2 Pad located at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at the previous LC-13. Directly next to LZ-1

Return to Launch Site – RTLS

A return to launch site usually means that after stage separation the booster flips and does a burn back towards the launch site, landing near where it initially launched from.

B1025

Core B1033

Booster B1033 last launched 02/06/2018 and has seen 0 successful launches and landings. Two of the outer engines didn’t re-ignite for the landing burn, ran out of TEA/TEB igniters.

Of Course I Still Love You – OCISLY

The second ASDS barge, Of Course I Still Love You (OCISLY) services launches in the Pacific Ocean and was the site of the first landing of a SpaceX Falcon 9 first stage during CRS-8, the launch of a Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station.

Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship – ASDS

An autonomous spaceport drone ship (ASDS) is an ocean-going vessel derived from a deck barge, outfitted with station-keeping engines and a large landing platform. Construction of such ships was commissioned by aerospace company SpaceX to allow for recovery of rocket first-stages at sea for high-velocity missions which do not carry enough fuel to return to the launch site after lofting spacecraft onto an orbital trajectory.

B1033

Strap-On Booster B1023

Booster B1023 last launched 02/06/2018 and has seen 2 successful launches and landings. Retired; on permanent display indoors at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.

Landing Zone 1 – LZ-1

LZ-1 Pad located at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at the previous LC-13

Return to Launch Site – RTLS

A return to launch site usually means that after stage separation the booster flips and does a burn back towards the launch site, landing near where it initially launched from.

B1023

Agency


SpaceX

Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars. SpaceX operates from many pads, on the East Coast of the US they operate from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and historic LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center. They also operate from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, usually for polar launches. Another launch site is being developed at Boca Chica, Texas.

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