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I read that last time falcon heavy flied was in june 2019, 3 years since. Why has it not flied to space since then? No mission or problems needed to be resolved
by MasterYoda 4y ago
I read that last time falcon heavy flied was in june 2019, 3 years since. Why has it not flied to space since then? No mission or problems needed to be resolved?
- eterevsky 4y agoIt's mostly due to the competition from the "normal" Falcon 9, which is quite capable and could be used for most of the existing payloads. Besides that, currently the payload is limited by the size of the fairing. SpaceX is working on the bigger fairing, but it is not available yet.
- virtuallynathan 4y agoThere were no missions... there are now 4 or 5 more on the manifest for the next 12 months.
- chasd00 4y agofalcon heavy was always this awkward middle child relative to F9 and Starship. Like iirc it was announced pretty close to F9 blk5 going to production, but very late, and then the starship concept took off and consumed resources and attention. The moment starship is operational then FH is cancelled I bet. I bet F9 hangs around even after Starship is operational however.