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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.


1 posted on 02/10/2021 8:10:34 AM PST by SmokingJoe
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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
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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.
3 posted on 02/10/2021 8:18:22 AM PST by SmokingJoe
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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
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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)
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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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