Falcon Heavy
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Nov 2, 2026
Neil deGrasse TysonHOST
The Falcon 9.
Neil deGrasse TysonHOST
No, I know the Falcon Heavy.
Neil deGrasse TysonHOST
The Falcon is the rocket launch
Jeff ThornburgGUEST
system.
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Chuck NiceHOST
Please don't cut that out.
Jeff ThornburgGUEST
The interesting thing about all of that is that when I testified before Congress in 2015, it was about, why are we sending all this money to Russia and buying their engines when we've got engineers we need to train in the United States and we have commercial companies that can do the job? And that was my argument.
Jeff ThornburgGUEST
And I said, hey, Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy— Starship, Raptor are coming, it's gonna be a thing.
Jeff ThornburgGUEST
Fortunately, I was right on all of that.
Lori LeshinGUEST
Hardware is doing great.
Lori LeshinGUEST
It's actually already in Florida waiting for it's going to launch on a Falcon Heavy, which is going to be really rocking.
Lori LeshinGUEST
Yeah.
Neil deGrasse TysonHOST
Falcon is SpaceX.
Ryan MillerHOST
Land with power becomes the new location.
Ryan MillerHOST
And on top of that, launch costs to orbit fell from about $61,000 a kilogram on the space shuttle to about $1,400 on the Falcon Heavy, which is why SpaceX was one of the largest IPOs in history.
Ryan MillerHOST
And if you know, you know, I did an episode comparing SpaceX to the East India Trading Company, the most valuable company of all time.
Ryan MillerHOST
And I think they're going to be the new East India Trading Company.
Steve RodriguezHOST
Now, if you break it down, what does that revenue consist of? Well, you've got several categories.
Steve RodriguezHOST
You've got government, commercial, the crude dragon, the CRS cargo, Rideshare, I guess they're being Uber, and Falcon Heavy, right? So as you see, in 2021, the majority of their launch revenue does come from the government.
Steve RodriguezHOST
Now, that does not include all NASA launches because the Crew Dragon and the CRS cargo is part of the NASA program.
Steve RodriguezHOST
And those are labeled green and a light shade of blue.
Steve RodriguezHOST
So early on, it was government, followed by commercial, a little bit of crude, a little bit of for cargo, and then Falcon Heavy was the last.
Steve RodriguezHOST
2022, it increased a little further.
Steve RodriguezHOST
Still, big government contracts, a little bit of commercial satellites being launched.
Steve RodriguezHOST
Then, of course, Crew Dragon and the cargo to the ISS, followed by Falcon heavy.
Scott ManleyHOST
And then of course it could add another 20 ton boulder to that for the hull back.
Scott ManleyHOST
The core bus was relatively compact because it had to fit inside a five-meter fairing for like an Atlas V or a Delta IV Heavy, or even a Falcon Heavy.
Scott ManleyHOST
SLS, yeah, sure.
Scott ManleyHOST
But it was basically like a boxy structure, a couple of meters long, a couple of meters wide, a few meters long.
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Scott ManleyHOST
It's going to act as the communications relay.
Scott ManleyHOST
Its propulsion system is going to be used to trim the final orbit continuously, but also it's going to be used to carry the space statecraft to its initial orbit.
Scott ManleyHOST
It's going to be launched on a Falcon Heavy already mated to the Habitation and Logistics Outpost.
Scott ManleyHOST
These were spec'd as two separate parts, but it's easier to just bolt them together and send them up as a single spacecraft.
Justin ColemanGUEST
And then at the National Labs, we're also prototyping and testing first-of-a-kind reactor systems, such as a reactor like Valkyrie, where we look to use things that are known as solid moderators that allow us to make our reactors smaller and lighter.
Justin ColemanGUEST
So what does smaller and lighter mean? Smaller and lighter means that we can now actually get a reactor onto a Falcon Heavy we can meet our payload requirements and we can get it up and out of Earth orbit and produce at least 20 kilowatt electric.
Justin ColemanGUEST
So we have to build on what we have today.
Justin ColemanGUEST
So that includes what we know in terms of hardware.
DannyHOST
And at the time, they were launching the Falcon 9 rocket.
DannyHOST
The plan was to build a commercial spaceport here at Boca Chica that would supplement Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy.
DannyHOST
Well, the business conditions changed.
DannyHOST
First of all, the reason they were looking to us for commercial launches was because they couldn't get NASA at the Kennedy Space Center to agree to a long-term lease.
KateHOST
Fun fact, I actually hosted the live webcast for our very first launch at Pad 39A, and it was so exciting to see that come back to life.
KateHOST
It's also exciting to see how today, almost 10 years later, the ongoing construction and development that will bring a second launch tower to Launch Complex 39A, you can see it ongoing there on your screen, It's designed to expand our capabilities to support Starship launches in the future, while also continuing to support Falcon Heavy missions from the original Apollo shuttle Falcon launch tower.
JakeHOST
Yeah, and we're also building a Starship launch pad at Slick 37.
JakeHOST
And to support the uptick in future launches, there's GigaBay, a giant assembly and maintenance facility designed to prep Starships ahead of Florida launches.
Kshitij KhandelwalGUEST
It was really Team Indus and not many others who were pushing in India.
Kshitij KhandelwalGUEST
And if you look at the timing when we started, we were quite fortunate in the sense that Feb 2018, the Falcon Heavy with the Roadster went up.
Kshitij KhandelwalGUEST
and SpaceX landed the boosters back and that was really the impetus in a lot of ways to do reusable launch and the launch cost came down and around that time there were a bunch of other issues also.
Kshitij KhandelwalGUEST
I think in a regulatory sense it was very difficult to convince someone that a non-government entity will own a spacecraft of its own and not something that it's building for someone else.
Scott ManleyHOST
It also has an interesting implication for Falcon 9 Heavy.
Scott ManleyHOST
Because with only one barge, how do you recover two boosters downrange? Next week, we are expecting a Falcon Heavy flight carrying a Viasat spacecraft.
Scott ManleyHOST
And that will be having both boosters return to the launch site.
Scott ManleyHOST
So that's not a problem.
Scott ManleyHOST
We know that we are expecting Nancy Grace Roman to also use Falcon Heavy.
Scott ManleyHOST
And the Europe's Martian rover, the Rosalind Franklin, Those are both supposed to use Falcon Heavy.
Scott ManleyHOST
We don't know if they're going to be doing an RTLS or if they're going to just expend the boosters, sacrifice the entire stack to the Dark Lord of Delta V, as I like to say.
Scott ManleyHOST
Or are they going to have both boosters fighting it out to see if they can both land on the same barge? That is something I would love to see and see if it's possible.
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