How SpaceX rocket fares against NASA's upcoming megarocket?
SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket is the world's most powerful operational rocket, with a liftoff thrust of 5 million pounds and 140,000-pound load capacity. Comparatively, NASA's upcoming Space Launch System will have 9.2 million pounds liftoff thrust with 286,000-pound capacity. Further, one Falcon Heavy launch will cost about $90 million whereas for SLS the price is expected to be $1 billion.