Falcon Heavy

Astrobotic selected SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy for its Griffin Mission 1 lunar lander mission to deliver the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) to the lunar south pole in late 2023.

SpaceX has NASA contracts to launch the Psyche mission to the metallic asteroid Psyche in 2022 and to launch the first two elements of the lunar Gateway in 2024 on Falcon Heavy.

Daniel Gillies is the director of Griffin Mission 1 at Astrobotic and previously worked at SpaceX as a mission integrator for the STP-2 Falcon Heavy launch.

Astrobotic selected SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket in a competitive commercial procurement to launch its Griffin lunar lander to the Moon in late 2023.

SpaceX publishes a list price of $90,000,000 on its website for Falcon Heavy.

General Atomics’ original Orbital Test Bed smallsat launched in 2019 on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy as part of the Space Test Program 2 mission.

The value of the Gateway launch contract at $331,800,000 is nearly three times higher than the $117,000,000 contract NASA awarded to SpaceX in February 2020 for the Falcon Heavy launch of the Psyche asteroid mission.

NASA awarded a contract to SpaceX on 2024-02-09 for the launch of the first two elements of the lunar Gateway on a Falcon Heavy.

The Green Propellant Infusion Mission (GPIM) spacecraft flew as one of the payloads on the Space Test Program 2 mission that launched on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy in June 2019.

Unofficial manifests in early 2021 suggested SpaceX could perform more than 30 Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launches in 2021 for government and commercial customers and for its own Starlink satellites.

The FAA completed an Environmental Impact Statement for the Boca Chica site in June 2014 when SpaceX was proposing a launch site for Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets.

Prox-1 is a 71-kilogram technology demonstration cubesat launched in June 2019 on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket that was equipped with a 70-meter Terminator Tape.

SpaceX won a recent Falcon Heavy launch contract from NASA for $117,000,000.

The Federal Aviation Administration published an environmental assessment in February projecting SpaceX performing up to 70 launches a year by 2023 from its two Florida launch sites, including 10 Falcon Heavy launches.

Psyche was originally planned to launch on a Falcon 9 Full Thrust but was ultimately assigned to launch on a Falcon Heavy because Falcon Heavy performance was needed for Psyche to reach its required orbit.

NASA planned in February for EscaPADE and Janus to launch as secondary payloads on a Falcon Heavy launch of the Psyche mission in July 2022.

SpaceX will provide Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy vehicles for National Security Space Launch Phase 2 missions.

SpaceX built into its Phase 2 bid vehicle upgrades such as a larger fairing and a higher-performing upper stage for Falcon Heavy to meet mission requirements.