A heavy-lift launch vehicle built by SpaceX from three Falcon 9 first-stage cores strapped together, the most powerful operational rocket in the world at its 2018 debut. Its maiden flight famously carried a Tesla Roadster into a solar orbit, and all three of its boosters are designed to land and be reused.
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Vehicle ClassHeavy-lift partially reusable launch vehicle 1 Manufacturer First Flight Date StatusOperational, flown for the U.S. government's heaviest national-security and NASA payloads. 1 Payload to LEO (kg)Approximately 63,800 kg in expendable configuration. 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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Falcon 9, Spacecraft Not a literal part; built from three Falcon 9 first-stage cores and grouped with it as the same rocket family.
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