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The SpaceX fleet, side by side.
Falcon 1 to Starship, to scale. Switch the metric to compare.
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Payload is the mass a rocket can carry to low Earth orbit (LEO), a few hundred kilometers up. Thrust is in meganewtons (MN); 1 MN is about 225,000 pounds of force.
Full specs
| Vehicle | Height | Diameter | Engines | Liftoff thrust | Payload to LEO | Reuse | First flight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Falcon 1Retired 2009 | 21.3 m | 1.7 m | 1 Merlin (first stage), 1 Kestrel (upper stage) | n/a | 670 kgdesign figure; 180 kg flown | No | 2006 |
| Falcon 9Active (Block 5 figures) | 70 m | 3.7 m | 9 Merlin (first stage), 1 Merlin Vacuum (upper stage) | 7.6 MN | 22,800 kgexpendable | Partial | 2010 |
| Falcon HeavyActive | 70 m | 12.2 moverall width, three cores | 27 Merlin (three Falcon 9 cores), 1 Merlin Vacuum (upper stage) | 22.8 MN | 63,800 kgexpendable | Partial | 2018 |
| Starship V3 (full stack)Flight testing; first orbit Sep 28, 2026 | 124 m | 9 m | 39 Raptor (33 on Super Heavy, 6 on the ship) | 80.8 MNfrom the booster | 100,000+ kgdesign goal, fully reusable | Full (goal) | 2023 |
| Super Heavy V3 (booster)Flight testing | 72 m | 9 m | 33 Raptor | 80.8 MN | n/a | Full (goal) | 2023 |
| Starship V3 (ship)Flight testing | 52 m | 9 m | 6 Raptor (3 sea-level, 3 Raptor Vacuum) | n/aupper stage; 15.8 MN total engine thrust | n/a | Full (goal) | 2023 |
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Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy, and Starship figures are SpaceX's own, from its vehicle pages (checked October 3, 2026). The Starship figures match the third-generation vehicle (V3, with Raptor 3 engines): SpaceX lists 8,240 metric tons of force (80.8 MN) for Super Heavy and 1,614 metric tons of force (15.8 MN) for the ship. Falcon payloads are for a rocket flown without recovery. Falcon 1 figures are from SpaceX's retired Falcon 1 program; it flew five times from 2006 to 2009. Falcon 9 first flew in 2010; the current Block 5 version first flew in 2018.
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