Launch Mission: Falcon Heavy Test Flight

Date: 2/6/2018

✅ Successful Launch

🧾 Mission Details

Flight #: 55

Details: The launch was a success, and the side boosters landed simultaneously at adjacent ground pads. Drone ship landing of the central core failed. Final burn to heliocentric mars-earth orbit was successful after the second stage and payload passed through the Van Allen belts.

🚀 Rocket Details

Name: Falcon Heavy

Type: rocket

📍 Launchpad Details

Name: Kennedy Space Center Historic Launch Complex 39A

Location: Cape Canaveral, Florida

Launchpad Details Page

🛰️ Cores

Core Serial: B1033 — Reuse Count: 0View Core
Core Serial: B1025 — Reuse Count: 1View Core
Core Serial: B1023 — Reuse Count: 1View Core

🧑‍🚀 Payloads

Payload: Tesla Roadster — Mass: 1350 kgView Payload

🚢 Ships Involved

Name: Megan — Type: CargoView Ship
Name: HAWK — Type: TugView Ship
Name: Of Course I Still Love You — Type: BargeView Ship