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Falcon Heavy | ViaSat-3 F1 (ViaSat-3 Americas) & others
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ViaSat-3 F1 (ViaSat-3 Americas) & others

Falcon Heavy

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This page records Falcon Heavy | ViaSat-3 F1 (ViaSat-3 Americas) & others and its reported outcome: Launch Successful. The date above is a historical record.

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

Launch vehicle
Falcon Heavy
Mission type
Communications
Destination orbit
Geostationary Orbit
Launch pad
Launch Complex 39A
Provider
SpaceX
Recovery
Expended, B1053 was expended following its third flight.

The vehicle

Published configuration and flight history.

Falcon Heavy
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
11
First flight
2018-02-06
B1068
Core

B1068

Flight 1New
Recovery
Atlantic Ocean
Landing method
Expended

Recorded timing

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57 minute windowPublished target
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Launch site & orbit

Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

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