The Falcon Heavy will lift off fromthe same launch padused by most of the Apollo moon missions, and it will havethe most lift capacityof any U.S. spacecraft since Apollo's Saturn V. If successful, the Falcon Heavy will pave the way for SpaceX transport beyond a close Earth orbi...
Although the Falcon Heavy was built using the first stages of three used Falcon 9 rockets, which cost around $62 million each, SpaceX says the Falcon Heavy pricing starts at $90 million per launch. That's a fraction of the cost of any existing heavy rocket competitor, such as United Lau...
SpaceX successfully launched its Falcon Heavy rocket earlier this afternoon from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and the live stream of the event was the second biggest in YouTube’s history. The event reached over 2.3 million concurrent views on YouTube, coming in second to the Red Bull S...
MERRITT ISLAND, Fla. --America's private space program made another giant leap Tuesday when agiant SpaceX rocket, named Falcon Heavy, blasted off from the launch pad once used in the moon missions. And new dreams of astronauts exploring deep space were reignited. The Falcon Heavy, the most ...
The rocket also could be used to launch astronauts or space tourists to the moon, although plans for such flights are not yet mature. Made up of three strapped-together Falcon 9 first stages and a single upper stage, carrying the Tesla, the Falcon Heavy's engines flashed to life at 3:45...
SpaceX is set to launch the first-ever flight of its Falcon Heavy rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida. This huge new rocket is effectively three of the company's Falcon 9 rockets strapped together, and it has all the power you'd expect. According to SpaceX, this rocket, if it successf...
Falcon Heavy Flight 2 is made even more exciting by the fact that both of its Block 5 side boosters will be instrumental to a planned third launch of the SpaceX rocket as few as two months later. According to the US Air Force, an agreement was reached with SpaceX to use the opportunit...
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket launched the U.S. Space Force's X-37B space plane to orbit tonight (Dec. 28), kicking off the robotic vehicle's seventh mission.
SEE ALSO:SpaceX's Falcon Heavy launch will make you excited about spaceflight again Muskposted an animated videoon Monday set to David Bowie'sLife on Mars?showing the highly anticipated launch. A space dummy,Starman, in the driver seat will also make the journey and float with the vehicle ...
Falcon Heavy draws upon Falcon 9’s proven design, which minimizes stage separation events and maximizes reliability. The second-stage Merlin Vacuum Engine delivers the rocket’s payload to orbit after the main engines cut off and the first-stage cores separate. ...