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SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy can loft 26,700 kg to geostationary transfer orbit using three liquid-fueled rocket cores.
The STP-2 mission launched on 2019-06-25 on a Falcon Heavy with 24 satellites aboard, including NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration payloads.
SpaceX’s contract to launch the Astranis satellite followed SpaceX losing a 2021 mission to launch the 1,500-kilogram Ovzon-3 satellite on Falcon Heavy.
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy launched the Defense Department’s Space Test Program-2 mission on 2019-06-25 with 24 satellites.
In June 2018 the Air Force awarded SpaceX a $130,000,000 contract to launch the Air Force Space Command-52 (AFSPC-52) satellite aboard Falcon Heavy.
In February the Air Force selected Falcon Heavy for the AFSPC-44 mission as part of a $297,000,000 contract that also includes two Falcon 9 launches for NRO satellites NROL-85 and NROL-87.
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.
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.
NASA awarded a contract to SpaceX on 2020-02-28 for the launch of the Psyche mission on a Falcon Heavy rocket.
NASA will use a Falcon Heavy to launch the Psyche mission in July 2022 from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center.
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.
NASA’s Psyche mission is scheduled to launch on a Falcon Heavy in the summer of 2022 and will host secondary payloads.
The NASA-funded GPIM mission launched in June 2019 on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy after delays pushed the launch from an earlier 2016 target.
SpaceX won a Falcon Heavy contract in February 2020 for a NASA asteroid mission in 2022 valued at $117 million, which included the launch and other mission-related costs.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
Astrobotic selected SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket in a competitive commercial procurement to launch its Griffin lunar lander to the Moon in late 2023.