Super Heavy Prototype

Active Re-Usable

SpaceX (SpX)

None

Description

Prototype of SpaceX's Super Heavy, a fully reusable first stage for the Starship space vehicle.

Specifications
  • Stages
    1
  • Length
    70.0 m
  • Diameter
    9.0 m
  • Fairing Diameter
  • Launch Mass
    300 T
  • Thrust
Family
  • Name
    Super Heavy Prototype
  • Family
  • Variant
    Prototype
  • Alias
  • Full Name
    Super Heavy Prototype
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
  • Low Earth Orbit
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
  • Direct Geostationary
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity

SpaceX

Commercial
CEO: Elon Musk
SpX 2002

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.


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