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Forum:	Commercial Space - Military Space
Topic:	[Discuss] SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket

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Your Reply: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	[QUOTE]Originally posted by Robert Pearlman: [B]SpaceX has been teasing on its [URL=http://www.spacex.com/]website[/URL] that "Something Big is Coming" on April 5, 2011. They also posted a teaser video... <center><iframe title="YouTube video player" width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/th6HQ9RtVCE?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></center> It appears the announcement relates to their [URL=http://www.spacex.com/falcon9_heavy.php]Falcon Heavy[/URL], which SpaceX describes as follows: <BLOCKQUOTE>The Falcon Heavy will be SpaceX’s entry into the heavy lift launch vehicle category. Capable of lifting over 32,000 kg to Low Earth Orbit (LEO), and over 19,500 kg to Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO), the Falcon Heavy will compete with the largest commercial launchers now available. It consists of a standard Falcon 9 with two additional Falcon 9 first stages acting as liquid strap-on boosters. With the Falcon 9 first stage already designed to support the additional loads of this configuration and with common tanking and engines across both vehicles, development and operation of the Falcon Heavy will be highly cost-effective. [list][]Length: 54.9 m (180 ft) []Width: 3.6 m (12 ft) []Mass: 885,000 kg (1,950 klb) []Thrust on liftoff: 15 MN (3,375 klbf)[/list]</BLOCKQUOTE>[/B][/QUOTE]
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