CAMPAIGNS DELIVERED
186
DOCUMENT 04 — INSTITUTIONAL RECORD
Ten years. 186 campaigns. One role: the independent hand on every heavy-lift payload.
Falcon Heavy Launch has sat between operators and the launch pad since 2014 — owning compatibility analysis, fairing allocation, regulatory filings, and ground operations so mission directors can focus on orbit, not paperwork.
CHAPTER 01 — ORIGIN
Founded 2014 by mission integration leads who saw the gap between operators and the launch pad.
Falcon Heavy Launch opened its doors in a single repurposed hangar at Cape Canaveral with a thesis that has not changed in ten years: heavy-lift campaigns fail in the seams between organizations, not inside any single one. Our founders came off integration desks at SpaceX and United Launch Alliance, where they had watched otherwise excellent payloads miss windows, overshoot mass margins, or arrive to the pad with paperwork the range would not accept.
The company was capitalized to do one thing — sit between the operator and the launch provider, hold the compatibility matrix, write the regulatory filings, manage the fairing allocation, and run the ground operations. We do not own a launch vehicle. We are deliberately independent of every launch provider we integrate for. That positioning is the whole company.
Ten years later, that single hangar in Florida is paired with a European operations office in Bremen, a 24/7 Mission Operations Cell, and a team of 112 engineers and mission directors across nine countries. The thesis has held.
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- 01 Independent of every launch provider we integrate for — by charter, not by accident.
- 02 Founded by senior integration leads, not financiers. Operators still run the company.
- 03 Headquartered on the Cape. Bremen opened in 2018 to serve European payloads and Arianespace-adjacent campaigns.
CHAPTER 02 — THROUGHPUT
Ten years of measurable throughput, not promises.
The figures below are taken from our internal 2014–2024 campaign close-out register and are the same numbers we hand to procurement officers during a Mission Feasibility Review.
SATELLITES DEPLOYED
412
ON-SPEC SEPARATION
98.4%
AVG. CAMPAIGN TIMELINE
11.3mo
CUMULATIVE PAYLOAD VALUE
$2.1B
ENGINEERS & MISSION DIRECTORS
112
Compliance & Cleared Status
Cleared, certified, and auditable by procurement teams in three regulatory regimes.
Every credential below has been re-verified within the past twelve months. Copies of certificates, scope statements, and facility clearance letters are released under NDA during the feasibility review.
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ISO 9001 — Quality Management
Quality management system audited annually by an accredited registrar.
Scope covers campaign design, payload compatibility analysis, integration procedures, and post-flight review across the Cape Canaveral and Bremen operations centers.
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AS9100D — Aerospace Quality
Aerospace-specific quality standard maintained across all flight hardware interfaces.
Configures our work for flight-critical hardware handling, configuration management, and first-article inspection discipline expected by prime contractors and national agencies.
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ITAR & EAR — Cleared Contractor
Cleared contractor for International Traffic in Arms and Export Administration technical data.
Facility clearance, controlled access, and a documented accountability system allow us to receive and route U.S. Munitions List and Commerce Control List data end-to-end across our two operations centers.
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FAA / AST — Interface Readiness
Direct API integration with FAA Office of Commercial Space Transportation and range safety.
We file payload notifications, payload reviews, and trajectory coordination packets directly into FAA/AST systems and three launch providers' planning stacks, shortening the licensing pathway by weeks.
Operating Philosophy
On independence, and why we sit between the operator and the launch pad.
"An integrator that also flies the rocket is no longer an integrator — it is a competing operator. Our job is to make every launch vehicle, every range, and every regulator equally accessible to the payload owner, with no preference and no hidden allegiance. Independence is not a marketing line for us. It is the only position from which on-spec separation is honestly possible."
Mission Feasibility Review
Bring your mission profile. We will return a feasibility review in 60 minutes.
Send us a short brief and a Mission Director will return a written feasibility review within one business hour — covering launch vehicle fit, range availability, regulatory pathway, and a tentative campaign timeline.