Super Heavy Prototype

Active Re-Usable

SpaceX (SpX)

None

Description

Prototype of SpaceX's Super Heavy, a fully reusable first stage for the Starship space vehicle.

Specifications

Stages
1
Length
70.0 m
Diameter
9.0 m
Fairing Diameter
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Launch Mass
300 T
Thrust
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Family

Name
Super Heavy Prototype
Family
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Variant
Prototype
Alias
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Full Name
Super Heavy Prototype

Payload Capacity

Launch Cost
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Low Earth Orbit
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Geostationary Transfer Orbit
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Direct Geostationary
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Sun-Synchronous Capacity
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SpaceX

Commercial

CEO: Elon Musk

SpX 2002

Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars. SpaceX operates from many pads, on the East Coast of the US they operate from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and historic LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center. They also operate from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, usually for polar launches. Another launch site is being developed at Boca Chica, Texas.

Flight Record

No spaceflights found for .

Recent Launches

Long March 6A

Success

1 day, 6 hours ago

Tianhui 5 Group 02

Launch Complex 9A - Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

A pair of satellites officially described as for cartographic surveying purposes, details TBD.

Firefly Alpha

Success

2 days, 1 hour ago

FLTA005 (Noise of Summer)

Space Launch Complex 2W - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

Fifth flight of the Firefly Alpha small sat launcher, carrying eight cubesats for NASA's ELaNa 43 (Educational Launch of a Nanosatellite) mission.

Falcon 9

Success

2 days, 20 hours ago

Starlink Group 8-9

Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral, FL, USA

A batch of 20 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.

H3-22

Success

5 days, 2 hours ago

Advanced Land Observing Satellite-4 (ALOS-4)

Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-2 - Tanegashima Space Center, Japan

The Advanced Land Observing Satellite-4 (ALOS-4) is a Japanese satellite designed to observe the Earth's surface using a phased array type L-band syn…

Long March 7A

Success

6 days, 17 hours ago

ChinaSat 3A

201 - Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of China

Chinese communication geostationary satellite for unknown purposes.