Falcon Heavy

The booster used for the 2022-01-31 Falcon 9 launch was originally built as a side booster for the Falcon Heavy and flew on the second and third Falcon Heavy missions in 2019.

The Power and Propulsion Element and the Habitation and Logistics Outpost will launch together on a Falcon Heavy in late 2024 and spend a year spiraling out to the near-rectilinear halo orbit around the moon.

Two U.S. Space Force missions that had been scheduled to use Falcon Heavy in 2021 slipped into the following year.

SpaceX is planning to launch Viasat’s ViaSat-3 on a Falcon Heavy early next year.

SpaceX is slated to launch Astranis’ first commercial small satellite to geostationary orbit as a secondary payload on a Falcon Heavy rocket next spring.

Astranis’ first commercial communications satellite, set to provide service for Alaska from geostationary orbit, will launch as a secondary payload on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy direct-inject mission in Spring 2022.

Pacific Dataport Inc (PDI) is Astranis’ first commercial customer and is preparing to launch its Arcturus satellite on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy in spring to provide internet services across Alaska.

SpaceX is scheduled to launch Viasat’s first high-capacity Ka-band ViaSat-3 satellite to geostationary orbit using a Falcon Heavy rocket in the first half of next year.

Falcon Heavy is projected to launch the Viasat-3 commercial broadband satellite with an Astranis communications satellite as a secondary payload in 2022.

Falcon Heavy launched Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster in February 2018.

Falcon Heavy launched the Arabsat-6A communications satellite in April 2019.

Falcon Heavy is projected to launch NASA’s Psyche planetary science mission in 2022.

Two U.S. Space Force missions originally scheduled to launch on Falcon Heavy in 2021 were delayed to 2022.

Tetra-1 is scheduled to launch on the USSF-44 mission aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket to geostationary orbit.

All three Falcon Heavy rockets launched so far have been successful, and the last Falcon Heavy mission before this announcement was Space Test Program 2 in June 2019.

SpaceX has at least two Falcon Heavy missions slated for early 2022, including a U.S. Space Force launch postponed from October and a no-earlier-than-March launch of Viasat’s first Viasat-3 broadband satellite.

Astranis selected SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy to launch its first commercial satellite in a direct-inject mission to geostationary orbit in spring 2022.

Previous low-altitude suborbital Starship test flights used an earlier environmental assessment prepared when SpaceX planned to launch Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy from Boca Chica, Texas.

The next Falcon Heavy launch, designated USSF-44, is scheduled to launch no earlier than 2021-10-09.