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Falcon Heavy expands commercial heavy-lift capability
From SpaceX and the New Commercial Space Race: From Falcon 1 to Starship
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Launch
Falcon Heavy expands commercial heavy-lift capability
Three Falcon 9-derived cores launched together on the rocket’s demonstration mission, with two side boosters landing successfully.
Falcon Heavy offered greater payload capacity without developing every component from scratch. Its dramatic debut demonstrated modular reuse of proven hardware, although mission demand and certification determine how often heavy-lift capacity is actually used.Sources & references 1 source
