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SpaceXLaunch SuccessfulBooster landing failedFalcon Heavy · Test Flight
Launched 2018-02-06 20:45 UTCLaunch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Mission
Reached Heliocentric N/A
Booster landing failed
Landing failed on Of Course I Still Love You
B1033, 1st flight
Worldwide
17th
orbital launch attempt in 2018
SpaceX
3rd
launch this year
Launch Complex 39A
1st
launch from this pad this year
Pad turnaround
99 d 1 h
since the pad's previous launch
This will be the inaugural flight of the Falcon Heavy. The test payload will be SpaceX CEO Elon Musk's midnight cherry Tesla Roadster playing Space Oddity. Destination: An elliptical, heliocentric orbit. Apoapsis: Around Mars' orbital distance.
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.
Launches
742
Successful
727
98%
Landings
687
of 715
Upcoming
136
scheduled
Height
70m
Diameter
12.2m
To low Earth orbit
63,800kg
Liftoff thrust
22,819kN
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