#falcon-heavy — Public Fediverse posts

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116417915564288153

#SpaceX will launch the #ESA’s Rosalind Franklin #Mars rover, perhaps as soon as late 2028, on a #FalconHeavy rocket

🛰️📷🚀 Photos incroyables (hors Nadir, non pointé sous le satellite) de #FalconHeavy sur le pas de tir et 38 secondes après le décollage par un satellite BlackSky Gen3

#Viasat:
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Viasat Confirms Successful Launch and Initial Signal Acquisition of ViaSat-3 F3
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" Successful ViaSat‑3 F3 launch advances Viasat’s global, multi-orbit network strategy."

"Next-Generation Satellite Set to Unlock APAC Capacity Expansion and Global Network Scale"

https://www.viasat.com/news/latest-news/corporate/2026/viasat-confirms-successful-launch-and-initial-signal-acquisition/

29.4.2026

#FalconHeavy #Kommunikationssatellit #Raumfahrt #satcom #Satelliten #Satellitenkommunikation #SpaceFlight #SpaceX #ViaSat3 #ViaSat3F3

🚀 #FalconHeavy a décollé ce jour avec le satellite de télécommunications Viasat-3 F3

📷 Jenny Hautmann et Max Evans

Falcon Heavy launches final ViaSat-3 terabit-class satellite

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://spacenews.com/falcon-heavy-launches-final-viasat-3-terabit-class-satellite/

Falcon Heavy piercing the clouds 🚀 ☁️

#SpaceX #FalconHeavy

📢 Jour de lancement
🚀 #FalconHeavy
🛰 Satellite de communication Viasat-3 F3 construit par Boeing
⏰ 14h13 UTC
🌎 Kennedy Space Center, Floride
📷 SpaceX et Boeing
📺 https://www.spacex.com/launches/viasat3f3

Next #FalconHeavy launch 🚀 Wednesday April 29, 2026 04:13 PM CEST. Launch vehicle was switched from #Ariane64 to Falcon Heavy due to delays 🥱 in #Ariane6 development https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/437/

🚀 Le vol #FalconHeavy prévu ce jour a été reporté à mercredi 29 avril à partir de 14h13 UTC en raison des mauvaises conditions météo
📷 SpaceX

Noin 17.20 lähtee Falcon Heavy. Striimi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyqOd6pf0E8 ja kisakatsomo #sirius:hacklab.fi

#avaruus #avaruustekniikka #falconheavy

📢 Jour de lancement
🚀 #FalconHeavy
🛰 Satellite de communication Viasat-3 F3 construit par Boeing
⏰ 14h21 UTC
🌎 Kennedy Space Center, Floride
📷 SpaceX et Boeing
📺 https://www.spacex.com/launches/viasat3f3

🚀 C'est le retour de #FalconHeavy !
Le lanceur doit décoller lundi 27 avril à 14h31 UTC avec le satellite ViaSat-3 F3. Premier vol depuis octobre 2024
📷 SpaceX

RE: https://mastodon.social/@europeanspaceflight/116419569201467886

#NASA announced that a #SpaceX #FalconHeavy would launch #ESA’s Rosalind Franklin mission to #Mars 🔴

The 600th safe recovery ♻️ of a #Falcon9 or #FalconHeavy rocket since 2015 https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacex-starlink-17-22-b1097-vsfb-ofisly-600th-falcon-landing

📊 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Falcon_9_and_Falcon_Heavy_launches#Booster_landings

#SpaceX

🛰️🔭 La NASA annonce le lancement du télescope spatial Nancy Grace Roman en septembre sur #FalconHeavy, en avance sur le planning prévisionnel et en dessous du budget.
#NASARoman

ESA's Rosalind Franklin Rover Secures Falcon Heavy Launch to Mars in Late 2028 via NASA Partnership

📰 Original title: El rover europeo Rosalind Franklin viajará a Marte en 2028 con un Falcon Heavy

🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
👥 Usuarios: It's not clickbait ✅

View full AI summary: https://killbait.com/en/esas-rosalind-franklin-rover-secures-falcon-heavy-launch-to-mars-in-late-2028-via-nasa-partnership/?redirpost=872ef68f-94cb-4e93-9fd5-5d0e1bfaae9c

#astronomy #marsrover #esa #falconheavy

SpaceX also has a Falcon Heavy version which "consists of a center core on which two Falcon 9 boosters are attached, and a second stage on top of the center core." Falcon Heavy has flow 11 times and launched the Europa Clipper probe in 2024. It is due to be replaced by Starship.

Payload: ~57,000 kg LEO, ~26,000 kg GTO
Merlin 1D (3x9+1): ~800 kN each

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_Heavy

#FalconHeavy

#NASA:
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Rosalind Franklin Support and Augmentation (ROSA) Project
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" .. ROSA project .. provides specific hardware + services .. in support of their Rosalind Franklin Mission to Mars, including a launch vehicle .., the propulsion system for ..lander platform, RHUs for .. rover.. + portions of the Mars Organic Molecule Analyzer scientific instrument."

https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/mars-rosa/2026/04/16/nasa-begins-implementation-for-esas-rosalind-franklin-mission-to-mars/

16.4.2026

#ESA #Exomars #ExomarsRover #FalconHeavy #Raumfahrt
#RosalindFranklin #ROSA #Rover #SpaceFlight #SpaceX

RE: https://mastodon.social/@NewSpaceEconomy/116350097902770911

Each #SLS and #Orion #Artemis launch costs approximately $4.1 to $4.2 billion 💰💰💰💰.

#SpaceX’s #FalconHeavy rocket, which recovers and reuses ♻️ its boosters : $100 million 💵 per flight.

~ 42 Falcon Heavy launches for the price of a single SLS launch

#FalconHeavy has a cost per kilogram to #LEO of approximately $1,400 💵 per kg. The cost per kilogram to orbit using the #SpaceX #Starship is approximately $94 🪙 https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2025/01/spacex-starship-roadmap-to-100-times-lower-cost-launch.html

#LaunchCost

SpaceX shifts away from Dragon launches at pad 39A as Starship looms

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://spaceflightnow.com/2026/02/06/spacex-shifts-away-from-dragon-launches-at-pad-39a-as-starship-looms/

🚀 Le 6 février 2018, c'était le premier vol de la #FalconHeavy . Déjà 8 ans 😮
La Tesla Roadster est toujours en orbite héliocentrique, confondue en janvier 2025 avec un astéroïde, temporairement baptisé 2018 CN41, alors qu'elle passait à moins de 240 000 km de la Terre.

Seulement 11 vols à son actif pour le moment pour FH. 4 vols sont prévus en 2026 dont le télescope spatial Grace Roman et 2 atterrisseurs lunaires privés.

📷 SpaceX

@60sRefugee "the only real alternative" in terms of tons of payload to the Moon. But for #astronaut missions #FalconHeavy would be way cheaper. Why investing 4bn for a launch ?

if all we want to do is fly around the #Moon 🌙 and back, a lightly modified #CrewDragon on #FalconHeavy could have done this at any point since 2020. It could be executed for well under $500m 💵, roughly equivalent to a single month of burn on the #SLS and #Orion programs. That is, for the same budget, we could fly a crew around the Moon every month indefinitely https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/nasas-orion-space-capsule-is-flaming-garbage/

#NASA #Artemis

#NewGlenn is giving the #Falcon9 and especially the #FalconHeavy a run for its money. #Starship's low launch costs, high cadence, and massive payload bay could turn the industry on its head https://spaceinsider.tech/2025/01/10/new-glenn-vs-starship-a-detailed-comparison-in-2025

Until Starship begins commercial operations, New Glenn’s 7-m-diameter 📏 fairing may be the best option for customers whose spacecraft don’t fit in the roughly 5 m fairings of Falcons and #ULA’s #Vulcan, or to launch more spacecraft at a time https://aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org/features/two-launches-two-companies-two-billionaires

#LaunchCost