For the largest and smallest rockets of 2019, let’s look at two of the newest members of the family!

Weighing in at a massive 1,420,788 kg, SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy was the heaviest rocket launched last  year. To put that number in perspective a bit, that’s 237 male African elephants.

The smallest orbital rocket launched last year was RocketLab’s Electron with a mass of 13,000 kg.  In case you’re curious, that’s just over the combined mass of 2 male African elephants.

If you were to put the two rockets side by side, the Electron would be dwarfed by the Falcon Heavy. The Electron is 17 meters tall which makes it not quite a fourth of the height of the 70 meter tall Falcon Heavy.

Read more about the rockets (and elephants) at:

• Falcon Heavy (SpaceX)
• Electron Payload User’s Guide (PDF, RocketLab)
• Electron (RocketLab)
• How much does an elephant weigh? (Elephant World)