Falcon Heavy launch overview

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Falcon Heavy is a partially reusable heavy-lift launch vehicle that is produced by SpaceX, an American aerospace manufacturer. This impressive rocket consists of two strap-on boosters made from Falcon 9 first stages, a center core also made from a Falcon 9 first stage, and a second stage on top. Falcon Heavy has the highest payload capacity of any currently operational launch vehicle and the third-highest capacity of any rocket ever to reach orbit. The Falcon Heavy rocket has also been certified for the National Security Space Launch (NSSL) program. Learn all about the different launches of the commercial Falcon Heavy rocket from the American space company SpaceX thanks to this overview! 

Falcon Heavy launch overview

Number Date launch Rocket Launch base Orbit Payload Patch Mission succes?
1 06/02/2018 Kennedy Space Center
(Florida)		 Heliocentric orbit
  • USA Tesla Roadster (SpaceX/Tesla)
 Falcon Heavy

Success
2 11/04/2019 Kennedy Space Center
(Florida)		 GTO
  • Saudi Arabia Arabsat-6A (Arabsat)
 Falcon Heavy

Success
3 25/06/2019 Kennedy Space Center
(Florida)		 LEO
  • USA DSX (AFRL)
  • USA FORMOSAT 7A (NOAA/NSPO)
  • USA FORMOSAT 7B (NOAA/NSPO)
  • USA FORMOSAT 7C (NOAA/NSPO)
  • USA FORMOSAT 7D (NOAA/NSPO)
  • USA FORMOSAT 7E (NOAA/NSPO)
  • USA FORMOSAT 7F (NOAA/NSPO)
  • USA GPIM (NASA/Ball Aerospace)
  • USA OTB 1 (GA-EMS)
  • USA NPSat 1 (USAF)
  • USA Oculus-ASR (Michigan Tech. University)
  • USA Prox 1 (Georgia Tech)
  • USA LightSail 2 (The Planetary Society)
  • USA ARMADILLO (University of Texas)
  • USA FalconSat 7 (USAF Academy)
  • USA Prometheus-2 (LANL)
  • USA BRICSat 2 (US Naval Academy)
  • USA PSat 2 (US Naval Academy)
  • USA E-TBEx A (SRI International)
  • USA E-TBEx B (SRI International)
  • USA CP 9 (PolySat)
  • USA StangSat (Merritt Island High School)
 Falcon Heavy

Success
4 01/11/2022 Kennedy Space Center
(Florida)		 GEO
  • USA USSF-44 (U.S. Space Force)
  • USA Tetra 1 (U.S. Space Force)
  • USA Alpine (Millennium Space Systems)
  • USA LINUSS 1 (Lockheed Martin)
  • USA LINUSS 2 (Lockheed Martin)
 Falcon Heavy

Success
5 15/01/2023 Kennedy Space Center
(Florida)		 GEO
  • USA USSF-67 (U.S. Space Force)
 Falcon Heavy

Success
6 01/05/2023 Kennedy Space Center
(Florida)		 GEO
  • USA ViaSat-3 (Viasat)
  • USA Arcturus (Astranis)
  • USA G-Space 1 (PT Pasifik Satelit Nusantara)
 Falcon Heavy

Success
7 29/07/2023 Kennedy Space Center
(Florida)		 GEO
  • USA Jupiter-3 (EchoStar)
 Falcon Heavy

Success
8 13/10/2023 Kennedy Space Center
(Florida)		 Heliocentric orbit
  • USA Psyche (NASA)
 Falcon Heavy

Success
9 29/12/2023 Kennedy Space Center
(Florida)		 GTO
  • USA USSF-52 X-37B (USSF)
 Falcon Heavy

Success

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This article was published by FutureSpaceFlight founder and chief editor Kris Christiaens. Kris Christiaens has been passionate and fascinated by spaceflight and space exploration all his life and has written hundreds of articles on space projects, the commercial space industry and space missions over the past 20 years for magazines, books and websites. In late 2021, he founded the website FutureSpaceFlight with the goal of promoting new space companies and commercial space projects and compiling news of these start-ups and companies on one website.