Falcon Heavy is the most powerful operational rocket in the world by a factor of two. With the ability to lift into orbit nearly 64 metric tons (141,000 lb) Falcon Heavy can lift more than twice the payload of the next closest operational vehicle, the Delta IV Heavy. Falcon Heavy is composed of three Falcon 9 nine-engine cores whose 27 Merlin engines together generate more than 5 million pounds of thrust at liftoff, equal to approximately eighteen 747 aircraft.

To: SmokingJoe
Really hoping and praying biden doesn’t cancel all this, but he probably will.
2 posted on
02/10/2021 8:11:16 AM PST by
Shadylake
To: SmokingJoe
By comparison, the Starship Super Heavy rocket have up to 37 much more powerful Raptor (not Merlin) engines, with another 6 vacuum optimized Raptors in the Starship itself.
To: SmokingJoe; Army Air Corps
So cool!
CCP backed Biden will do everything to kill this project.
6 posted on
02/10/2021 8:21:06 AM PST by
KC_Lion
To: SmokingJoe
Probably a death-blow to SLS...
11 posted on
02/10/2021 8:43:26 AM PST by
BobL
(TheDonald.win is now Patriots.win)
To: SmokingJoe
All this while JPL has whined about not being able to do global warming.
18 posted on
02/10/2021 9:43:13 AM PST by
pas
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