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This $1,100/kg ($500/lb) goal stated by Musk in 2011 is 35% of the cost of the lowest-cost-per-pound LEO-capable launch system in a 2001 study: the Zenit, a medium-lift launch vehicle that could carry 14 t (31,000 lb) into LEO for US$35–50 million. [94]
Falcon Heavy test flight: 5,900 kg (13,007 lb) Maiden flight of Falcon Heavy with Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster, COSPAR 2018-017A: Solar Orbit: Lost contact 2018: 2018 Chandra X-ray Obs. 5,865 kg (12,930 lb) Space observatory [18] HEO: In service: 1999– GSAT-11: 5,854 kg (12,906 lb) Heaviest Indian communications satellite [19] GEO: In service ...
Dry mass (kg) Launch mass (kg) Payload (kg) § Payload volume (m 3) Return payload (kg) § Diameter (m) Generated power (W) Automated docking Status (No. flights) TKS Soviet Union: TsKBM: Proton-K: 17.51: 13,688: 21,620: 12,600: 4.15: 2,400: No Retired (4) Progress 7K-TG Soviet Union: Energia: Soyuz-U: None No Retired (43) Progress-M (11F615A55 ...
SpaceX's Falcon Heavy has won its first classified national security payload launch, proving that the company was able to demonstrate that its new rocket is reliable enough to ferry military ...
The EPS second stage was replaced by the ESC-A (Etage Supérieur Cryogénique-A), which had a dry weight of 4,540 kg (10,010 lb) and was powered by an HM-7B engine burning 14,900 kg (32,800 lb) of cryogenic propellant. The ESC-A used the liquid oxygen tank and lower structure from the Ariane 4's H10 third stage, mated to a new liquid hydrogen tank.
Payload to low Earth orbit was projected to be 6,100 kg (13,400 pounds). Propulsion for the rocket was planned to be provided by four Merlin 1D rocket engines, engines that were also to be used in the Falcon 9 v1.1 beginning in 2013, and also on the Falcon Heavy in 2014. Its first flight was notionally planned for 2016.
It wasn't the rocket's debut but "there's been a lot of anticipation" for the massive Falcon Heavy rocket's first commercial launch.
Falcon 9 Block 5, the most prolific active orbital launch system in the world. This comparison of orbital launch systems lists the attributes of all current and future individual rocket configurations designed to reach orbit. A first list contains rockets that are operational or have attempted an orbital flight attempt as of 2024; a second list ...