Falcon Heavy | EchoStar 24/Jupiter-3
Launch Successful
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Launch Window
July 29, 2023, 3:04 a.m. - July 29, 2023, 4:43 a.m.
July 29, 2023, 3:04 a.m. - July 29, 2023, 4:43 a.m.
Geostationary communications satellite built by Maxar Technologies for EchoStar. With a capacity of 500 Gbps, its purpose is to relieve broadband capacity constraints in the Americas.
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Launch success.
Liftoff.
Livestream has started
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.
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The sidebooster has landed back at the launch site after its 3rd flight.
Result: Successful Return to Launch Site landing at Landing Zone 2.
The sidebooster has landed back at the launch site after its 3rd flight.
Result: Successful Return to Launch Site landing at Landing Zone 1.
B1074 was expended after its first flight.
Core will be expended.
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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