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A heavy-lift launch vehicle (HLV) is an orbital launch vehicle capable of lifting payloads between 20,000 to 50,000 kg (44,000 to 110,000 lb) (by NASA classification) or between 20,000 to 100,000 kilograms (44,000 to 220,000 lb) (by Russian classification) [1] into low Earth orbit (LEO). [2]
The UR-700M would have a payload capacity of 750 t (1,650,000 lb). [60] The only Universal Rocket to make it past the design phase was the UR-500 while the N1 was selected to be the Soviets' HLV for lunar and Martian missions. [61] The UR-900, proposed in 1969, would have had a payload capacity of 240 t (530,000 lb) to low earth orbit. It never ...
Falcon Heavy has the second highest payload capacity of any currently operational launch vehicle behind NASA's Space Launch System (SLS), and the fourth-highest capacity of any rocket to reach orbit, trailing behind the SLS, Energia and the Saturn V. SpaceX conducted Falcon Heavy's maiden launch on 6 February 2018, at 20:45 UTC. [7]
The payload, Elon Musk's original Roadster, mounted on the payload adapter inside the payload fairing The Roadster is permanently attached to the upper stage of the Falcon Heavy rocket. The dummy payload for this test flight was a sports car, Tesla Roadster , owned by Elon Musk .
Vehicle Origin Manufacturer Height Maximum payload mass (kg) Reusable / Expendable Orbital launches including failures [a] Suborbital test flights Launch site(s) Dates of flight LEO GTO Other First Latest Starship Block 1 [139] United States: SpaceX: 121 m 40,000 – 50,000 [140] N/A N/A Reusable: 0 6 Starbase: 2023 2024 Angara A5 / Orion ...
Musk referred to this new launch vehicle under the unspecified acronym "MCT", [53] revealed to stand for "Mars Colonial Transporter" in 2013, [12] which would serve as part of the company's Mars system architecture. [54] SpaceX COO Gwynne Shotwell gave a potential payload range between 150–200 tons to low Earth orbit for the planned rocket. [53]
Falcon 9 is a partially reusable, human-rated, two-stage-to-orbit, medium-lift launch vehicle [a] designed and manufactured in the United States by SpaceX.The first Falcon 9 launch was on 4 June 2010, and the first commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) launched on 8 October 2012. [14]
In 2015, Virgin modified the vehicle design to better target their intended market, and increased the vehicle payload capacity to 300 kg (660 lb) launched to a 500 km (310 mi) Sun-synchronous orbit, suitable for CubeSats and small payloads. Virgin Orbit targeted a launch price around US$12 million for the rocket. [2]