SpaceX
Falcon Heavy
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 has many pads, on the East Coast of the US they own SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral and LC-39A at the Kennedy Space Center for their lower inclination launches. They also own SLC-4E at Vandenberg, California for their high inclination launches. Another site is also being developed at Boca Chica, Texas.
INFO WIKILaunch Vehicle
Falcon Heavy
Configuration: Heavy
Family: Falcon
The Falcon Heavy is a variant of the Falcon 9 full thrust launch vehicle and will consist of a standard Falcon 9 rocket core, with two additional boosters derived from the Falcon 9 first stage.
ExploreDedicated Rideshare
The STP-2 payload is composed of 25 small spacecraft. Included is COSMIC-2 constellation to provide radio occultation data, along with 8 cubesat nanosatellites. Other payloads include LightSail carried by the Prox-1 nanosatellite, Oculus-ASR nanosatellite, GPIM and the Deep Space Atomic Clock.
Falcon Heavy Booster Info
B1052
Type: Strap-On Booster
Flight Proven: Yes
Successful Landing
The side boosters will attempt to land at LZ-1 and LZ-2.
B1053
Type: Strap-On Booster
Flight Proven: Yes
Successful Landing
The side boosters will attempt to land at LZ-1 and LZ-2.
B1057
Type: Core
Flight Proven: No
Unsuccessful Landing
The center core was not able to land successfully on OCISLY, this however was SpaceX's most ambitious landing attempt to date.
Watch the Launch
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Launch Complex 39A
Links
Videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PR099lJ7la8https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxH4CAlhtiQ