SpX

TBD

Falcon Heavy | NROL-86

Government/Top Secret

Time to liftoff

Date unconfirmed

Target Window

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Exact time to be confirmed

Net Precision

Fiscal Year

— Featured

Article

Mission Status

@ARealRocketMan · Aug 11, 2026

SpaceX: Falcon Heavy

— Mission

NROL-86

Unknown· N/A

Classified payload for the US National Reconnaissance Office

— Rocket

Falcon

Falcon Heavy

The Falcon Heavy is a variant of the Falcon 9 full thrust launch vehicle and consists of a standard Falcon 9 rocket core, with two additional boosters derived from the Falcon 9 first stage.

Length: 70 m
Diameter: 12.2 m
Launch Mass: 1,400 t
LEO Capacity: 63,800 kg
GTO Capacity: 26,700 kg
Maiden Flight: 2018

Launches

Success

Failures

Falcon Heavy is SpaceX's partially reusable heavy-lift launch vehicle — three Falcon 9 boosters and 27 Merlin engines producing over five million pounds of thrust at liftoff, with side boosters that fly back for reuse.

— Launch Pad

Launch Complex 39A

Kennedy Space Center, FL

Latitude

28.6082°

Longitude

-80.6043°

Pad Launches

224

Timezone

America/New_York

Launch Complex 39A

Kennedy Space Center, FL

28.608°, -80.604°

— Launch Provider

Commercial

SpaceX

Est. 2002 · CEO: Elon Musk

Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars. SpaceX operates from many pads, on the East Coast of the US they operate from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and historic LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center. They also operate from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, usually for polar launches. Another launch site is being developed at Boca Chica, Texas.

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Total

720

Success

131

Pending