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    Falcon Heavy -- SpaceX's Powerful New Rocket

    SpaceX's Falcon Heavy, a 27-engine booster will be ready for launch in one year. The rocket will be company's first entry into "heavy lift" launch, representing a major milestone in the burgeoning commercial space-flight industry.

  • Elon Musk with Falcon Heavy
    SpaceX founder Elon Musk today unveiled the Falcon Heavy, a modified version of the Falcon 9 (pictured) with three times the power.
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  • SpaceX Falcon Heavy
    SpaceX's new Falcon Heavy will compete with the largest commercial launchers available while maintaining cost effectiveness. It consists of a standard Falcon 9 with two additional Falcon 9 first stages acting as liquid strap-on boosters.
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  • Engine Blast
    SpaceX engineers fire off a rocket engine during testing.
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  • F9 Demo
    Engineers prepare the Falcon 9 for a demonstration.
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  • F9 Launchpad
    SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket sits idly on a launch pad in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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  • F9 Launch
    Falcon 9 blasts off on December 8 during SpaceX's historic test flight. It became the first company in history to re-enter a spacecraft from Earth orbit. This was the second flight of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket.
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  • Dragon
    Dragon is a free-flying, reusable spacecraft developed to sit on top of the Falcon launch vehicles. On December 8th, SpaceX successfully launched Dragon into orbit before successfully recovering it, a first for private space-flight.
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  • Falcon Comparison
    A side-by-side comparison of SpaceX's Falcons.
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  • Published
    8 Images

    Falcon Heavy -- SpaceX's Powerful New Rocket

    SpaceX's Falcon Heavy, a 27-engine booster will be ready for launch in one year. The rocket will be company's first entry into "heavy lift" launch, representing a major milestone in the burgeoning commercial space-flight industry.

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  • Falcon Heavy -- SpaceX's Powerful New Rocket
  • Elon Musk with Falcon Heavy
  • SpaceX Falcon Heavy
  • Engine Blast
  • F9 Demo
  • F9 Launchpad
  • F9 Launch
  • Dragon
  • Falcon Comparison