The Millennium Falcon is a pretty big ship. But what are its exact dimensions and mass?
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1Mass is proving quite hard to pin down. – Valorum Jan 23 '22 at 17:16
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1Hmm. The canonical mass of an X-Wing is 10 tons. If we assume that the Falcon contains about the same material as twenty of those, then that gives us a baseline weight of approx. 200 tons. – Valorum Jan 23 '22 at 19:55
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3@Valorum You typically have to weld it on, otherwise it'll fall off again. – Spencer Jan 23 '22 at 22:07
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Based on Valorum's 1st reference, volume is ~~~~= 30 x 30 x 7 metres or about 6300 cubic metres. Make that say 5000 m^3 due to no box like shape. Satellite launchers tend to have densities of about 1000 kg/m^3 (same as water). The MF is not fuel-mass intensive but also does not depend on having an ultra low density. A means SG of 0.1 to 0.2 puts the mass maybe in the range 500 - 1000 tons. – Russell McMahon Jan 24 '22 at 10:02
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1@RussellMcMahon It seems there aren't any large fuel tanks either, and let's not forget this is a cargo ship - though according to ICS, the cargo space volume seems a pretty small fraction of the entire ship (more like a caravan than a real cargo hauler). Still, a lot of empty space - lots of big rooms and corridors. – Luaan Jan 24 '22 at 10:58
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@Luaan Yes - I allowed 10-20% of the mass of an orbital launcher. The Hyperdrive engine is a substantial mass, of course. – Russell McMahon Jan 24 '22 at 11:53
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3I think its mass is about 2 parsecs – frarugi87 Jan 24 '22 at 16:37
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@Luaan its not really a cargo freighter - its a cargo pusher. That's why the YT-1300 has that weird "fork" shape on the front and the cockpit is offset, to see around the cargo. The internal compartments are purely for smuggling. See https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/117365/what-is-the-purpose-of-the-millennium-falcons-mandibles/ – Criggie Jan 24 '22 at 21:01
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1@Criggie That would explain the oversized engines, at least. But there's still freight loading cranes, freight loading doors, freight elevators... clearly it's meant to carry cargo on the inside too, but... where? :D Maybe Solo just has a particularly trimmed down version to maximize speed (or just pimped out for extra comfort). There are two areas marked out as cargo holds, but they don't really seem designed for cargo - maybe they're also supposed to be under the floor (like the secret compartments), or again, Han repurposed them. – Luaan Jan 25 '22 at 07:28
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@Luann - The deck plans of an unaltered YT freighter show plenty of space for cargo. Han, on the other hand, is mainly smuggling drugs which don't need lots of space. – Valorum Jan 25 '22 at 13:49
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Various sources about the dimension of the Millennium Falcon exist. They're not all in agreement, but most of the modern canon sources state that the ship's length is around 35-40m and that its height is around 7.5m, not including its landing struts.
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Star Wars: Complete Vehicles - Incredible Cross-Sections (2020)
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The DeAgostini factbooks seem to have persistent error, identifying the ship as 26.7 metres long.
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Corrected in the rebooted magazine series from 2013 onward.
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4I love how in that first image that the Falcon has dimensions of a whole number of feet and inches, but speed is a nice round number of kph. Talk about mixing up units, let alone from a far away galaxy a long time ago. – Peter M Jan 24 '22 at 00:32
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@PeterM If you do the conversions, you get: 7.58m is 24ft 10.4in and 40.80m is 133ft 10.3in. The other way, you get 7.59m and 40.82m. Either the metric values were used as a base (rounded up to the next inch), or the conversions are plainly wrong. It's just that 7.58 doesn't look nice and round. – AmiralPatate Jan 24 '22 at 14:29
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"Cargo : 100 MT." - Isn't that supposed to mean there's 10,000 cubic feet of cargo space? https://www.quora.com/How-big-is-a-100-ton-ship – Mazura Jan 24 '22 at 14:40
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1On a different note, it occurs to me that the first source greatly differs on the length likely because the Falcon in Solo includes the escape pod. – AmiralPatate Jan 24 '22 at 15:10
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1@Mazura - It can carry 100 metric tons. That might be 4 cubic metres of gold, 12 cubic metres of steel or100 cubic metres of water – Valorum Jan 24 '22 at 15:58
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Probably extrapolated by seeing those shots of Luke in the gunner's seat (one of the best examples showing a human inside a part recognizable from the outside), and comparing it to Mark Hammill's actual height. – Darrel Hoffman Jan 24 '22 at 21:31
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2@DarrellHoffman - There are multiple remarks in the 'making of Star Wars' books about how the setmakers struggled to make the exterior of the Falcon look like it could possibly contain the internal sets that we see, with the cast walking around with ample headroom – Valorum Jan 24 '22 at 21:34
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Some extended discussion about units of measurement etc. has been moved to chat; please feel free to continue there. – Rand al'Thor Jan 25 '22 at 09:17
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Also, considering that Solo ejected the entire front portion (escape pod) and turned Lando Calrissian's shining, sleek beauty into the galaxy's fastest piece of junk (I can't imagine how many times it's been scratched by Imperial fighers), I wouldn't be surprised if there is some variance between different figures. – Sovereign Inquiry Oct 25 '22 at 02:18
According to Wookieepedia:
Length. 34.37 meters.
Width. 25.61 meters.
Height/depth. 8.27 meters (including lower cannon and upper sensor array)
MGLT. 75 MGLT.
Maximum speed (atmosphere) 1,050 km/h.
Engine unit(s) 2 Girodyne SRB42 sublight engines (heavily modified)
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3The note says that figure is taken from, Solo: A Star Wars Story The Official Guide. – GeoffAtkins Jan 24 '22 at 08:18
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@GeoffAtkins - The only place I've seen it referred to as 34.37m is the 'Build the Millennium Falcon' book. – Valorum Jan 24 '22 at 22:28
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@Valorum - Yes, my comment came after your answer which categorically demonstrates that the values cited in Wookieepedia don't match the values in the source they are citing. Unless there are significantly different values in different editions. – GeoffAtkins Jan 24 '22 at 23:25
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This doesn't directly answer the question, but I thought it was worth mentioning as potentially helpful supplemental info.
Supposedly, the Millennium Falcon at Disney World is constructed at full scale. A little googling finds this reference, which is being a bit wonky at the time I'm posting this. But I did have the privilege of visiting the park myself, and I'm positive I also read this fact someplace while I was there.
Maybe someone can find a better source with more data on the Disney MF?
That said, as to whether the Disney Millennium Falcon is truly what we'd think of as "full scale" (i.e., what we see on screen), I have no way of knowing. Seeing it up close, my initial reaction was that I thought it'd be slightly larger (for instance, it struck me how crammed the cockpit seemed like it would be). But either way, that thing is pretty close to what you'd imagine.
If anyone has some fancy imaging software that's good with measuring distances (or knows a Disney employee who can go measure it), it might make a good point of comparison.
Edit: Following @Valorum's comment below, I completely agree that what we see on-screen inside the ship is vastly incongruent with what we see outside. I only mention the cockpit as an exception to this because that's the one interior section we typically can see from external views.
In any case, it might be interesting (or at least fun) to know how the dimensions of the Disney Falcon match up with the figures quoted in other responses here.
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2The 'full scale' ship in the film was wildly inconsistent externally to what we see inside. – Valorum Jan 24 '22 at 22:18
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@Valorum You're right, of course. There's no way the interior sets would fit inside the real-life model at Disney. The "canonical outside" has to be different than the "canonical inside," I guess. – Dan Jan 24 '22 at 22:22
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Well if the Millenium Falcon is a TARDIS it would be perfect for smuggling. – Justin Ohms Jan 24 '22 at 23:24









