Falcon Heavy | NGG-2 (USSF-174)

Government/Top Secret

Time to liftoff

Targeting 2020s

Target Window

2020s

Exact time to be confirmed

Net Precision

Decade

DEC

— Featured

Article

Mission Status

@ARealRocketMan · Aug 11, 2026

SpaceX: Falcon Heavy

— Mission

NGG-2 (USSF-174)

Geostationary Transfer Orbit· GTO

Second Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared GEO (NGG) satellite for the US Space Force. It is designed to deliver survivable, resilient missile warning, tracking, and defense.

— 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

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 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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