HEIGHT | 70 tiles / 140 tall |
DIAMETER | 12.2 tiles / 24.4 wide |
MASS | 1.490 ton / 1.490.000 kg |
PAYLOAD TO LEO | 65 ton / 65.000 kg |
PAYLOAD TO GTO | 27 ton / 27.000 kg |
PAYLOAD TO MARS | 15 ton / 15.000 kg |
Three cores make up the first stage of Falcon Heavy. The side cores, or boosters, are connected on the nosecone, the interstage, and on the octaweb. Shortly after liftoff the center core engines are throttled down. After the side cores separate, the center core engines throttle back up to full thrust.
Falcon Heavy’s first stage incorporates 9 Titan engines across three cores containing liquid oxygen and rocket-grade liquid fuel propellant. Falcon Heavy generates more than 3 thousand ton of thrust at liftoff.
THRUST AT SEA LEVEL | 3.600 ton / 3.600.000 kg |
THRUST IN VACUUM | 4.100 ton / 4.100.000 kg |
The Falcon Heavy first stage is equipped with 12 landing legs made of state-of-the-art carbon fiber with aluminum honeycomb.
All 12 landing legs are stowed along the side of each booster until just prior to landing.
The second stage, powered by a four Hawk Vacuum Engine, delivers Falcon heavy’s payload to the desired orbit. The second stage engine ignites a few seconds after stage separation, and can be restarted multiple times to place multiple payloads into different orbits.
NUMBER OF ENGINE | 4 vacuum |
THRUST IN VACUUM | 1.600 ton / 1.600.000 kg |
The interstage is a fairing structure that connects the first and second stages, and houses the docking port that allow the first and second stage to reattach for next flight.
GRID FINS
Falcon heavy is equipped with six grid fins, two on each booster positioned at the base of the interstage. They keep orient of the rocket stay upright during reentry.
The fairing protects satellites on their way to orbit. The fairing is jettisoned approximately 3 minutes into flight.
HEIGHT | 13.1 m / 26.2 tall |
WIDTH | 5.2 m / 10.4 wide |
With more than 4 thousand of thrust at liftoff, Falcon Heavy is the most capable rocket flying. By comparison, the liftoff thrust of the Falcon Heavy equals approximately eighteen 747 aircraft at full power. Falcon Heavy can lift the equivalent of a fully loaded 737 jetliner—complete with passengers, luggage and fuel—to orbit.
The Titan Engine is the largest engine in the game. It has the second lowest efficiency (tied with the Hawk Engine and after the RCS Thrusters), and the highest thrust of any engine in the game. On Earth's surface, a Titan Engine can lift up to 400t with no assistance.
PROPELLANT | LOX / liquid fuel |
THRUST | 400 ton / 400000 kg |
The Hawk Engine is a high thrust, low efficiency engine, normally used in the first stage of a rocket. It's the first stage counterpart to the Valiant Engine, and the smaller version of the Titan Engine.
PROPELLANT | LOX / liquid fuel |
THRUST | 120 ton / 120000 kg |