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ViaSat-3 Americas & Others

Falcon Heavy

SpaceX

Launch Status
Success

Mission

ViaSat-3 Americas & Others

Type: Communications
Launch Cost: $90,000,000

The ViaSat-3 is a series of three Ka-band satellites is expected to provide vastly superior capabilities in terms of service speed and flexibility for a satellite platform. Each ViaSat-3 class satellite is expected to deliver more than 1-Terabit per second of network capacity, and to leverage high levels of flexibility to dynamically direct capacity to where customers are located.

Also onboard this mission is Astranis’s first MicroGEO satellite and Gravity Space’s GS-1 satellite.

Trajectory

View the rocket launch trajectory, velocity, altitude, thrust and much more at FlightClub.io

Location

Launch Complex 39A

Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

220 rockets have launched from Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA.

Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

Rocket

Falcon Heavy – SpaceX

  • Family: Falcon
  • Length: 70 m
  • Diameter: 12.2 m
  • Launch Mass: 1400 T
  • Low Earth Orbit Capacity: 63800 kg

The Falcon Heavy was manufactured by SpaceX with the first launch on 2018-02-06. Falcon Heavy has 6 successful launches and 0 failed launches with a total of 6 launches. The Falcon Heavy is a variant of the Falcon 9 full thrust launch vehicle and consists of a standard Falcon 9 rocket core, with two additional boosters derived from the Falcon 9 first stage.

Core Landing

B1068 will be expended after its first flight.

Atlantic Ocean – ATL

Atlantic Ocean

Ocean – Ocean

No recovery attempt

Strap-On Booster Landing

B1053 will be expended following its third flight.

Atlantic Ocean – ATL

Atlantic Ocean

Ocean – Ocean

No recovery attempt

Strap-On Booster Landing

B1052 will be expended following its 8th flight.

Atlantic Ocean – ATL

Atlantic Ocean

Ocean – Ocean

No recovery attempt

Agency

SpaceX – SpX

  • Type: Commercial
  • Abbreviation: SpX
  • Administration: CEO: Elon Musk
  • Founded: 2002
  • Launchers: Falcon | Starship
  • Spacecraft: Dragon
  • Country: USA

Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars. SpaceX operates from many pads, on the East Coast of the US they operate from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and historic LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center. They also operate from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, usually for polar launches. Another launch site is being developed at Boca Chica, Texas.

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Jordan
Jordan
1 month ago

Is this the correct date? Why did this get updates to 4/26, spacex and ksc have not changed their website to reflect 4/26?

Rocket Monkey
Rocket Monkey
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Reply to  Jordan
1 month ago

SpaceX and KSC are slow to update their website.

fwdtorpedoroom
fwdtorpedoroom
Reply to  Jordan
1 month ago

unknown but other site *** agrees 4/26. weather looks awful.

Julie
Julie
1 month ago

KSC is saying Monday 4-24, is 4-26 correct?

Rocket Monkey
Rocket Monkey
Admin
Reply to  Julie
1 month ago

KSC is slow to update its website.

Smcsw
Smcsw
1 month ago

Spacex is expending all 3 boosters this time. Very unusual for them. And no landing for us to watch. Bummer.

Rocket Monkey
Rocket Monkey
Admin
Reply to  Smcsw
1 month ago

They need all the fuel to get the payload into orbit.

Ken & Judy
Ken & Judy
1 month ago

THE ‘HEAVY” DUDE IS BACK ……GO SPEED .!!!!!

Elle
Elle
1 month ago

See it’s moved to 4/27 now.

Rocket Monkey
Rocket Monkey
Admin
Reply to  Elle
1 month ago

Do you have a source for that information?

Bruce
Bruce
Reply to  Rocket Monkey
1 month ago
Rocket Monkey
Rocket Monkey
Admin
Reply to  Bruce
1 month ago

Thank you, the launch date has been updated.

Ken & Judy
Ken & Judy
1 month ago

Magic launch SpaceX YET AGAIN.