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ViaSat-3 F3 (ViaSat-3 Asia-Pacific)
Falcon Heavy
Historical mission record
This page records Falcon Heavy | ViaSat-3 F3 (ViaSat-3 Asia-Pacific) and its reported outcome: Launch Successful. The date above is a historical record.
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Mission status
Launch Successful
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LAUNCH SITEKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Mission
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.
- Launch vehicle
- Falcon Heavy
- Mission type
- Communications
- Destination orbit
- Geostationary Transfer Orbit
- Launch pad
- Launch Complex 39A
- Provider
- SpaceX
- Recovery
- Return to Launch Site, The Falcon Heavy side booster B1072 has landed back at the launch site at Landing Zone 2 after its 2nd flight. +1
The vehicle
Published configuration and flight history.
Launch vehicle
Falcon Heavy
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.
- Height
- 70 m
- Diameter
- 12.2 m
- Stages
- 3
- Recorded launches
- 12
- First flight
- 2018-02-06
Core
B1098
Flight 1New
- Recovery
- Atlantic Ocean
- Landing method
- Expended
Recorded timing
This is a mission record, not an upcoming calendar appointment.
1h 25m windowPublished target
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WINDOW CLOSES
Target ·
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Weather concerns
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Flight timeline
Planned sequence, not live telemetry. Times are relative to the launch target.
- T−00:53:00
GO for Prop Load
- T−00:50:00
Stage 1 Propellant Load
- T−00:45:00
Stage 1 LOX Load
- T−00:35:00
Stage 2 Propellant Load
- T−00:18:30
Stage 2 LOX Load
- T−00:07:00
Engine Chill
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- T−00:00:59
Startup
- T−00:00:45
GO for Launch
- T−00:00:20
Tank Press
- T−00:00:06
Ignition
- T+00:00:00
Liftoff
- T+00:01:09
Max-Q
- T+00:02:21
SBECO
- T+00:02:25
Boosters Separation
- T+00:02:30
Boosters Flip
- T+00:02:41
Boosters Boostback Burn Startup
- T+00:03:47
Boosters Boostback Burn Shutdown
- T+00:03:50
MECO
- T+00:03:54
Stage 2 Separation
- T+00:04:01
SES-1
- T+00:04:17
Fairing Separation
- T+00:06:28
Boosters Entry Burn Startup
- T+00:06:44
Boosters Entry Burn Shutdown
- T+00:07:41
Boosters Landing Burn
- T+00:07:58
Boosters Landing
- T+00:08:13
SECO-1
- T+00:26:05
SES-2
- T+00:27:33
SECO-2
- T+04:47:47
SES-3
- T+04:48:30
SECO-3
- T+04:57:31
Payload Separation
Launch site & orbit
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
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Launch site & orbit
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