ViaSat-3 Americas & Others
Falcon Heavy
SpaceX
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
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Location
Launch Complex 39A
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
220 rockets have launched from 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.
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?
SpaceX and KSC are slow to update their website.
unknown but other site *** agrees 4/26. weather looks awful.
KSC is saying Monday 4-24, is 4-26 correct?
KSC is slow to update its website.
Spacex is expending all 3 boosters this time. Very unusual for them. And no landing for us to watch. Bummer.
They need all the fuel to get the payload into orbit.
THE ‘HEAVY” DUDE IS BACK ……GO SPEED .!!!!!
See it’s moved to 4/27 now.
Do you have a source for that information?
Hi I saw this on Space X site:
https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=ViaSat-3-Americas
Thank you, the launch date has been updated.
Magic launch SpaceX YET AGAIN.