Energy
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) July 30, 2023
The Falcon Heavy packs more than 5 million pounds of thrust at launch, making it about three times more power than SpaceX’s workhorse Falcon 9 rocket. While impressive, the Heavy is no match for NASA’s new SLS rocket, which creates around 8.8 million pounds of thrust at launch, nor SpaceX’s in-development Super Heavy, which exhibits 17 million pounds of thrust when it leaves the launchpad.
The Super Heavy has launched only once to date, but the test mission, in April, ended in explosive fashion after an anomaly a few minutes after liftoff forced mission operators to self-destruct the vehicle in midair.
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