SpaceX's Falcon Heavy debut launched Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster with mannequin 'Starman' toward a heliocentric orbit near Mars. Both side boosters landed simultaneously at Cape Canaveral; the center core missed the drone ship and was lost.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Helio-N/A
- Heliocentric orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1 T (est.)
- Flight
- 1st
- of 14 Falcon Heavy flights
- Date and time
- 6 February 2018, 20:45 UTC
- Rocket
- Falcon Heavy
- Builder
- SpaceX
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Payload
- Test Flight
- International designator
- 2018-017
- Launches in 2018
- 17th of 114
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