USSF-52

Rocket

Falcon Heavy – SpaceX

• Family: Falcon
• Length: 70 m
• Diameter: 12.2 m
• Launch Mass: 1400 T
• Low Earth Orbit Capacity: 63800 kg

The Falcon Heavy was manufactured by SpaceX with the first launch on 2018-02-06. Falcon Heavy has 6 successful launches and 0 failed launches with a total of 6 launches. 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.

Strap-On Booster Landing

B1065 will attempt to landed back at the launch site after its third flight.

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.

Strap-On Booster Landing

B1064 will attempt to landed back at the launch site after its third flight.

Landing Zone 1 – LZ-2

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.

Core Landing

The Falcon Heavy core stage will be expended.

Atlantic Ocean – LZ-2

Atlantic Ocean

Ocean – Ocean

No recovery attempt

Agency

SpaceX – SpX

• Type: Commercial
• Abbreviation: SpX
• Administration: CEO: Elon Musk
• Founded: 2002
• Launchers: Falcon | Starship
• Spacecraft: Dragon
• Country: USA

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.