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VEHICLE PROFILE
Falcon Heavy
SpaceX heavy-lift launch vehicle built around three reusable Falcon 9-derived first-stage cores and a common upper stage.
SPECIFICATIONS
DIAMETER / WIDTH
12.2 m / 39.9 ft overall width
MASS CONTEXT
1,420,788 kg / 3,125,735 lbs vehicle mass
PAYLOAD
63,800 kg to LEO; 26,700 kg to GTO; 16,800 kg to Mars, per current SpaceX vehicle page.
PROPULSION
Three first-stage cores use 27 Merlin engines total and generate more than 5 million pounds of thrust at liftoff; second stage uses one Merlin Vacuum engine.
Dimensions and capabilities depend on configuration.
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