Falcon 9 (SpaceX)
70 m (229.7 ft)
Overall height
SpaceX's reusable workhorse rocket. 70 m (229.6 ft) tall.
Published
How big is that?
70 m is 1.4 times an Olympic pool and 64% of an NFL field.
Falcon 9 is the 7th smallest of the 39 Cosmic Scale objects, and the 41st largest of the 109 objects across all three SizeItUp games.
Closest in size from the other games: Leaning Tower of Pisa (Classic), 56 m tall and Elizabeth Tower (Big Ben) (Classic), 96.3 m tall.
Size comparison
To scale, smallest to largest: Falcon 9 in orange beside the Cosmic Scale objects nearest in size, in teal.
| Object | Size | vs Falcon 9 |
|---|---|---|
| James Webb Space Telescope (Sunshield)The tennis-court-sized sunshield that keeps Webb cold, measured along its long side. | 21.197 m | 30% of the size |
| Space Shuttle orbiter (Without the fuel tank)NASA's reusable spaceplane, measured nose to tail. | 37.2 m long | 53% of the size |
| Falcon 9 (SpaceX) | 70 m tall | – |
| International Space Station (Seen from above)The orbiting laboratory, measured along its solar-array truss. | 109 m long | 1.6× bigger |
| Saturn V (Moon rocket)The rocket that carried Apollo astronauts to the Moon. | 111 m tall | 1.6× bigger |
In other units
| Centimetres | 7,000 |
|---|---|
| Metres | 70 |
| Feet | 229.7 |
| Yards | 76.55 |
How it's measured
Overall height. SpaceX.
Sources
- spacex.com: HEIGHT 70 m / 229.6 ft.
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Could you have guessed it by eye?
Falcon 9 is one of the objects in Cosmic Scale, a daily size comparison game: you stretch a shape to the size you think is right beside one you know.