Falcon Heavy

NASA awarded a launch services contract to SpaceX on 2021-07-23 for the 2024-10-01 launch of Europa Clipper on a Falcon Heavy rocket.

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.

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

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.

The Uranus Orbiter and Probe flagship mission has an estimated cost of $4,200,000,000 and could launch as soon as 2031 on a Falcon Heavy or similar heavy-lift vehicle.

A pandemic-related shortage of skilled workers pushed the Falcon Heavy launch of Viasat's Boeing-built ViaSat-3 satellite from the first half of 2022 to 2022-06-30.

EchoStar’s Jupiter-3 Americas-focused high-throughput GEO satellite, being built by Maxar Technologies, is set to launch on a Falcon Heavy in 2023 instead of 2022.

The first ViaSat-3 satellite is slated to launch to geostationary orbit on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy later in 2022 to cover the Americas.

SpaceX offers Falcon Heavy at a commercial list price of $97,000,000 after increasing the price earlier 2022 from $90,000,000 citing inflation.

NASA awarded SpaceX a Falcon Heavy contract for the Europa Clipper mission to Jupiter in 2024 valued at $178,000,000.

NASA selected SpaceX on 2022-07-19 to launch the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope on a Falcon Heavy in 2026-10-01 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

SpaceX will launch the Maxar-provided power and propulsion element and Northrop Grumman’s HALO module on a Falcon Heavy rocket in late 2024.

SpaceX’s schedule includes six Falcon Heavy launches in the next 12 months, and Falcon Heavy last flew in mid-2019.

SpaceX plans to recover the Falcon Heavy side boosters from USSF-44 and refurbish them for a subsequent U.S. Space Force launch later 2022.

USSF-44 is the first Falcon Heavy to launch since June 2019.

Launch Complex 39A is also used for Falcon Heavy launches that include the USSF-67 and USSF-52 missions for the U.S. Space Force, currently scheduled for early 2023 after extended delays.

USSF-44 flew to geostationary Earth orbit on 2022-11-01 and was Falcon Heavy’s first national security launch.

SpaceX is aiming to launch Falcon Heavy mission USSF-67 on 2023-01-12 from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

SpaceX launched the U.S. Space Force’s USSF-67 mission from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A on 2023-01-15 aboard a Falcon Heavy rocket.