Falcon Heavy

SpaceX offered the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy, which were the only certified vehicles that competed in Phase 2.

General Atomics’ first Orbital Test Bed launched in 2019 on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy and housed five distinct payloads for commercial, government, and academic customers.

NASA’s Psyche mission is scheduled to launch on a Falcon Heavy in the summer of 2022 and will host secondary payloads.

The first Orbital Test Bed launched in 2019 on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy and housed five distinct payloads for commercial, government, and academic customers.

The NASA-funded GPIM mission launched in June 2019 on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy after delays pushed the launch from an earlier 2016 target.

An October 2024 launch window for Europa Clipper would require Mars and Earth gravity assists, extending flight time, and could be executed by commercial launch vehicles such as SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy.

Six COSMIC-2 satellites launched in June 2019 aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket are gathering more than 4,000 daily radio occultation soundings.

The contract provides the Space Force with engineering insight intended to enhance mission assurance for National Security Space launches using the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launch vehicles.

Millennium Space Systems completed development and integration of a cubesat scheduled to be launched to geosynchronous orbit later in 2020 on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rideshare mission for the U.S. Space Force.

SpaceX will use a new spacecraft called Dragon XL, launched on the company’s Falcon Heavy rocket, to carry cargo to the lunar Gateway.

NASA awarded a contract to SpaceX on 2020-02-28 for the launch of the Psyche mission on a Falcon Heavy rocket.

SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy manifest included two classified U.S. Air Force missions scheduled for late 2020 and early 2021 and a ViaSat-3 broadband communications satellite for Viasat in mid-2021.

NASA will use a Falcon Heavy to launch the Psyche mission in July 2022 from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center.

Prox-1 was one of 24 small satellites that launched on Falcon Heavy as part of the U.S. Defense Department’s Space Test Program-2 mission.

NPSat-1, another satellite from the Falcon Heavy launch, has a Terminator Tape module onboard that is set to deploy toward the end of 2020.

The Air Force small launch directorate carried out five missions in 2019, including STP-2 aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy and the Ascent Abort-2 flight test from a modified Peacekeeper missile.

SpaceX had up to three national security missions planned for 2020 on Falcon 9 and the first Falcon Heavy national security mission planned for 2020.

SpaceX previously used the same payload fairing on the Arabsat-6A Falcon Heavy launch in April 2019.

NASA’s fiscal year 2020 budget request estimated launching a mission on a commercial rocket such as Delta IV Heavy or Falcon Heavy would result in over $700,000,000 in savings compared to using an SLS rocket.