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Spacex Falcon Heavy

Missions → FORMOSAT-7/COSMIC-2 , GOES-19 (Operational)

Falcon Heavy is a three-core orbital launch vehicle that combines a central booster with two side boosters, each equivalent to a Falcon 9 first stage. Total first-stage thrust comes from 27 Merlin 1D engines (nine per core); the second stage uses a single Merlin 1D Vacuum engine. Propellants are RP-1/LOX across all stages. The vehicle shares the 5.2 m diameter fairing with Falcon 9.^[1] Payload to LEO is 63,800 kg expended or 50,000 kg with all cores recovered.^[1] Payload to GTO is 26,700 kg expended or 16,800 kg with side boosters recovered.^[1] Side-booster recovery is routine; centre-core recovery is mission-dependent.^[2] Maiden flight was 2018-02-06; first operational payload flight was 2019-04-11.^[2] The vehicle is currently active.^[1] EO-relevant launches include the COSMIC-2 constellation (2019, GNSS radio occultation for meteorology and ionospheric sensing) and STP-2 (2019, a DoD technology demonstration mission).^[2]

Supply chain position

launched FORMOSAT-7/COSMIC-2

launched GOES-19

Sources

[1]Falcon Heavy - Wikipediacommunity2026-06-16
[2]Falcon-Heavy - Gunter's Space Pagecommunity2026-06-16
[3]Falcon-Heavy Block 5 detail - Gunter's Space Pagecommunity2026-06-16

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@misc{eoatlas:launch_services:spacex-falcon-heavy,
  title = {Spacex Falcon Heavy},
  author = {{EO-Atlas}},
  publisher = {SpectraWorks B.V.},
  note = {CC BY 4.0},
  url = {https://eo-atlas.org/launch_services/spacex-falcon-heavy}
}