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
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Launch Mass
300.0 T
Thrust
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Family

Name
Super Heavy Prototype
Family
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Variant
Prototype
Alias
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Full Name
Super Heavy Prototype

Payload Capacity

Launch Cost
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Low Earth Orbit
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Geostationary Transfer Orbit
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Direct Geostationary
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Sun-Synchronous Capacity
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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.

Flight Record

No spaceflights found for .

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Long March 2D

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4 hours, 11 minutes ago

PIESAT-2 13-16

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Electron

Success

11 hours, 39 minutes ago

Owl By The Dozen (StriX Launch 12)

Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1B - Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand

Synthetic aperture radar satellite for Japanese Earth imaging company Synspective.

Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M

Success

1 day, 22 hours ago

Glonass-K1 No. 20 (?)

43/3 (43L) - Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation

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Kuaizhou 11

Success

2 days, 12 hours ago

SpaceTY-51 & 52

Launch Area 95A - Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

2 Earth observation radar satellites built by the Chinese satellite manufacturer SpaceTY.

Falcon 9

Success

2 days, 13 hours ago

USSF-259

Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

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