Poll: Falcon Heavy will have it's first successful launch?

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Oh wow! <Blushes>

[Danderman]

a lot of optimists here.

I should state for the record my guess as to when FH flies with crossfeed in a version that could approach 50 metric tons as payload: never.

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my guess as to when FH flies with crossfeed in a version that could approach 50 metric tons as payload: never.

Aw, shucks! I was so hoping to see a FH center core launch from Florida and land in California. Without crossfeed there can be no hope....

[Pipcard]

my guess as to when FH flies with crossfeed in a version that could approach 50 metric tons as payload: never.

Aw, shucks! I was so hoping to see a FH center core launch from Florida and land in California. Without crossfeed there can be no hope....

Even with crossfeed I don't think it can go that far. To do that would require being almost at orbital speed.

I've checked in Orbiter space flight simulator - just deorbit a satellite to just few hundred m/s short of orbital speed, and the projected (purely ballistic) landing point falls back rather quickly.