Launch vehicle
Falcon Heavy
Falcon Heavy is a partially reusable heavy-lift launch vehicle derived from the Falcon 9 and operated by SpaceX.
- Type
- Launch vehicle
- Domain
- Scientific connections
- Connections
- 8
NASA/Kennedy · NASA media (public domain)
- Type: Launch vehicle
- Domain: Scientific connections
Experience system V6
Rocket engineering profile
A vehicle-first layout for staging, launch context, organizations, and mission graph relations.
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Observe
NASA imagery anchors the visual reading with licensed source metadata.
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Measure
Measurement panels use graph coverage, catalog identifiers, and source availability without inventing values.
- 03
Locate
Operated by SpaceX.
- 04
Connect
8 graph relations shape the knowledge viewport.
- Object type
- Launch vehicle
- Graph relations
- 8
- Verified sources
- 1
- Image records
- 4
- Domain
- Scientific connections
- Status
- Graph entity
Scientific map
Mission context
- Operated by
SpaceX
- Launched
Europa Clipper
- Launched
Psyche
- Member of family
Falcon
Original SVG diagram
Mission architecture
- Agency
- Not recorded
- Launch year
- Not recorded
- Mission type
- Not recorded
- Status
- Not recorded
Visual knowledge graph
Relationships, not isolated facts
This viewport is generated from the Asteria knowledge graph. Science, culture, and interpretive links remain separated by domain so visual context never changes the evidentiary meaning of a relation.
- LaunchedEuropa Clipper
- Member of familyFalcon
- Derived fromFalcon 9
- Launched fromLaunch Complex 39A
- LaunchedLightSail 2
- Powered byMerlin 1D
- LaunchedPsyche
- Operated bySpaceX
Image provenance
Photography as evidence
SpaceX Falcon Heavy Demo Flight - Landing
NASA/Kennedy · NASA media (public domain)
SpaceX Falcon Heavy Demo Flight - Liftoff
NASA/Kennedy · NASA media (public domain)
SpaceX Falcon Heavy Demo Flight - Landing
NASA/Kennedy · NASA media (public domain)
SpaceX Falcon Heavy Demo Flight - Liftoff
NASA/Kennedy · NASA media (public domain)
Continue the atlas
Curated next objects
SpaceX
SpaceX is an American aerospace company that designs, manufactures, and launches rockets and spacecraft.
space missionEuropa Clipper
Europa Clipper will make dozens of flybys of Jupiter's moon Europa to assess its habitability.
space missionPsyche
Psyche is travelling to the metal-rich asteroid 16 Psyche to study a possible exposed planetary core.
rocket familyFalcon
SpaceX's family of RP-1/LOX rockets — the retired Falcon 1, the reusable Falcon 9, and the Falcon Heavy — that made orbital-class booster reuse routine.
launch padLaunch Complex 39A
The historic Kennedy Space Center pad that launched the Apollo 11 Saturn V and many Space Shuttle flights, now leased to SpaceX for Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy, and Starship operations.
rocket engineMerlin 1D
SpaceX's reusable RP-1/LOX gas-generator engine; nine power each Falcon 9 first stage and twenty-seven power the Falcon Heavy, with a vacuum variant on the upper stage.
Observation
How this was captured
- Source
- NASA
- Observation date
- 2018-02-06
Gallery
SpaceX Falcon Heavy Demo Flight - Landing
The SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket’s two side cores descend toward landing at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida following a successful liftoff at 3:45 p.m.
2018
NASA/Kennedy · NASA media (public domain)
Data
Scientific data & provenance
Data & provenance
- Stable ID
launch_vehicle:falcon-heavy- Type
- Launch vehicle
- Domain
- Scientific connections
- Relationships
- 8
- Graph version
- 1.0.0
Dataset membership
Open data
In the graph export: graph.json · graph.jsonld
Planned API: GET /api/v0/entities/launch_vehicle:falcon-heavy
Scientific quality
Partial3 of 7 applicable dimensions complete, 1 partial
- Description
- Complete
- Source coverage
- Partial
- Relationship coverage
- Complete
- Review coverage
- None
- Citation coverage
- None
- Image coverage
- Complete
- Timeline coverage
- None
Scientific entity. Dimensions that cannot apply to this object are excluded rather than counted as gaps. See the evidence framework and authority dashboard.
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- Launch siteKennedy Space CenterLinked through Europa Clipper
- Launch vehicleFalcon 1Linked through SpaceX
- Rocket stageFalcon 9 first stageLinked through Merlin 1D
- Rocket stageFalcon 9 second stageLinked through Merlin 1D
- OrganizationNASALinked through Europa Clipper
- Launch vehicleSaturn VLinked through Launch Complex 39A
Sources & references
The primary and reference sources this topic draws on.
- NASANational Aeronautics and Space Administration
Mission data, planetary science, space telescopes, and public-domain imagery.
Most NASA-produced imagery is in the public domain; individual items are checked for usage terms before publication.