What SpaceX just Did with Falcon Heavy is Unusual...

What SpaceX just Did with Falcon Heavy is Unusual...
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Intro: 0.00
Falcon Heavy: 0.40
3.54: As SpaceX accelerates its launch cadence, the Falcon Heavy is gearing up for critical missions, including those featuring extended fairings for larger payloads.
8.29: One of the imminent Falcon Heavy missions mentioned earlier in anticipation of the Lunar Gateway is Griffin Mission One.
13.56: Outro
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What SpaceX just Did with Falcon Heavy is Unusual...
SpaceX is gearing up for something extraordinary with one of its rockets.
I know what you’re thinking.
But no, I’m not referring to Starship-though Starship V2 is certainly stealing the spotlight right now.
Let’s not forget that SpaceX has another formidable powerhouse in its arsenal: the Falcon Heavy.
And now, SpaceX has an exciting upgrade planned for this vehicle, one that promises to elevate its already impressive capabilities to new heights.
What exactly is this upgrade?
Let’s dive right in and find out!
What SpaceX just Did with Falcon Heavy is Unusual...
The Falcon Heavy, SpaceX’s powerful super heavy-lift launch vehicle, exemplifies cutting-edge engineering and partial reusability, designed to carry payloads into Earth’s orbit and beyond. This impressive rocket builds upon the proven design of the Falcon 9, incorporating three Falcon 9 first stages as its core. With enhanced structural reinforcements, Falcon Heavy stands 70 meters tall and generates over 5.1 million pounds of thrust at liftoff. Typically, it utilizes the same second stage and payload fairing as the Falcon 9, but an updated extended payload fairing has been developed for specialized missions.
What SpaceX just Did with Falcon Heavy is Unusual...
What sets this version apart from the standard fairing? The most notable difference is its increased size. The extended payload fairing maintains nearly the same diameter as the standard version but adds 17 additional feet in height, creating more room to accommodate larger payloads. This expansion boosts Falcon Heavy’s versatility and allows it to support missions requiring physically larger payloads. However, the changes go beyond mere dimensions.
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Why cant they increase the diameter of payload fairing in expandable mode of Super Heavy. This way it can deploy larger payloads until Starship is fully operational?

[@PinoAstro]

From my understanding, Falcon was designed to be transported via road, so it could assembled in a different spot than the launch site. Roads limit the maximum diameter, and I think they've already made it the largest diameter possible. In addition, there are likely aerodynamic considerations for a fairing that is much wider than the rest of the rocket.

[@jackf.7415]

FH and F9 use the same size payload fairing at 5 meters. BO now has NG with a larger diameter fairing( 7 meter) and ULA has Vulcan (5.4 meter) to fill the niche. Soon Sx will have Starship. Generally speaking, most payloads will fit in a F9 sized fairing. Many times it launches below its max capacity as payloads are usually smaller and lighter rather the larger and heavier. Kinda like driving a semi tractor trailer to Home Depot to pick up a box of nails. This is why Falcon Heavy has only flown 6 times since its first flight in 2018, and Delta 4 heavy having flown a total of 16 missions between 2004 and 2018.

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I can imagine a Falcon heavy using 5 boosters rockets to carry super heavy payloads.

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@colonbina1 remember the movie, 'Lost in Space' the launch wasn't a cylindrical rocket. However it did use multiple rocket engines to get into space Just saying, big guys think big. 5 Falcon boosters could launch a massive space vehicle.

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Interesting video. Seems wasteful to not apply the same parachute for the extended fairing and see what happens. Maybe allow other space agencies to bid on the Griffin Rover Intellectual property and vehicle remains.

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Payloads like Air Force kinetic weapons 'project thor' such as 20 ft. 22K pound tungsten rods. The Falcon Heavy rocket has a maximum payload of 63,800 kilograms (140,700 pounds) to low Earth orbit (LEO). That is 6 rods without orbital launch platform satellite.

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Falcon Heavy could easily be made into Falcon Super Heavy by putting 4 - 5 Falcon boosters around a central core. We're talking something intermediate between Falcon Heavy and Starship. Falcon Super Heavy would be a great workhorse for getting to the planets.

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Yes, it would have been fun, but they would have needed to add more framing around the core. 2 boosters become RLTS, and 2 recovered at sea. A lot of mass to the moon or mars with no refuel needed: To Mars: ~25,000-30,000 kg (55,000-66,000 lbs) , To the Moon: ~30,000-35,000 kg (66,000-77,000 lbs) - DeepSeek calc - which is about 50-60% more that FH.

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Don't forget the added challenges to fuel and launch the setup. Would require a new QD and launch mount

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@@Raynl1978 For sure, it would be another $1B effort for everything over a couple years ... with Starship close I would focus on an expendable Starship instead.

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You’ve pretty much just equaled Super heavy booster power without the same level of reusability. Even though Falcon is reusable after a lot of refurbishment it wouldn’t be as reusable as a super heavy booster which won’t require refurbishment. I think someone else mentioned an expendable Starship as an interim awaiting full Starship reusability.

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I don't think that is easy. If I had to do it with them, I might do 6 total, add one junction to the core... but putting a mini starship on top could be cool. I also want to see a third stage on starship, where the starship pushes hard and lands in africa or indian ocean, and then third stage is disposable. or a second stage that is disposable and a keep starship as the 3rd stage.

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i wish they would put a pair of GEM 63XLs on each of the three boosters of a falcon 9H.

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They should turn the fairing into a flying wing

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@@colonbina1 he wants the fairing to be made into a type of lifting body, imagine a small space shuttle. I don't think he quite realizes the failing is jettisoned as soon as possible to lighten the load, parachutes back to earth, is recovered, reconditioned, and reused. Falcon Heavy is pure large cargo.

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This is all about competing with Blue Origin, which has a lot more room than a Falcon rocket has in its fairing. SpaceX did not have to develop this until Blue was on the cusp of launching. And SpaceX cannot use Starship for these large systems, as its “Pez” delivery system is not big enough.

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Shotwell runs Starship.

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Well considering what upgrades did to the starships I hate to see Falcon heavy to explode

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This fairing upgrade has been planned from the start of Falcon Heavy's inception, but the focus on Starship with ultimate fairing size, the ship itself, must have delayed those plans. Only the military would need it, at the moment, so it is special use that might come to use for special NASA launches. It all comes down to opportunity and cost savings; the means of transportation, are variable. The criteria the USSF needs is first; how quick can the rocket be ready, is it a proven rocket, and how much cheaper is it to other means to orbit.

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The larger payload fairing is GREAT NEWS for SpaceX. This new fairing will give SpaceX customers much-needed assurances that SpaceX will REALLY soon be able to accommodate significantly larger Falcon heavy payloads. The best part of this news is that it is more evidence that SpaceX engineers are returning to pragmatic engineering practices and REAL, CONCRETE schedules and cost estimates that their customers can actually rely on. This is another important step - like the new separate Starship 2nd stage catch tower - that shows that SpaceX engineers are freeing themselves from the horrendously stupid ideas of CyberTruck Turd Boy, aka FSD Fraudster, aka TeslaBot Smoke and Mirrors Man, aka Twitter Disaster Dipshit, aka NeuralLink Monkey Killer, aka HyperLoop Abject Failure, aka xAI Too Late Loser, aka DOGE Douche Bag, aka Mars Colony Fairytale Teller, aka Elon the Nazi Worshipper. The biggest danger for SpaceX is that Elon will return to fire the competent Falcon 9/Falcon Heavy SpaceX engineers in favor of YES men so that he can take ALL the credit for this new SpaceX direction and then promptly guide SpaceX back into the same ditch that has caused Starship development to slip its schedules by years.

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