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Hughes JUPITER 3 Mission

SpaceX is targeting Wednesday, July 26 for Falcon Heavy’s launch of the Hughes JUPITER 3 mission to a geosynchronous transfer orbit from Launch Complex 39A (...

SpaceX

SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company was founded in 2002 to revolutionize space technology, with the ultimate goal of enabling people to live on other planets.

EchoStar 24/Jupiter-3

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Overview

Destination: Geostationary Transfer Orbit
Mission: Communications

Geostationary Transfer Orbit Launch Complex 39A Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA Probability: 65%
B1064 - Landing Zone 1 B1074 - Atlantic Ocean B1065 - Landing Zone 2

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.

Telemetry

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Updates

Cosmic_Penguin • July 29, 2023, 7:55 a.m.

Launch success.


Cosmic_Penguin • July 29, 2023, 3:04 a.m.

Liftoff.


LL2 • July 29, 2023, 2:44 a.m.

Livestream has started


Falcon Heavy

Family: Falcon
Configuration: 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.

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Specifications
  • Stages
    3
  • Length
    70.0 m
  • Diameter
    12.2 m
  • Fairing Diameter
  • Launch Mass
    1400 T
  • Thrust
    22819 kN
Family
  • Name
    Falcon Heavy
  • Family
    Falcon
  • Variant
    Heavy
  • Alias
  • Full Name
    Falcon Heavy
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
    $90000000
  • Low Earth Orbit
    63800 kg
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
    26700 kg
  • Direct Geostationary
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity

Booster Info


B1064

Status: Active


Type: Strap-On Booster
Flight Proven: Yes
First Flight: November 1, 2022
Last Flight: October 13, 2023
Flights: 4
Landings Attempted: 4
Landings Successful: 4
Previous B1064 Flights

Landing Information

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


Type: Core
Flight Proven: No
First Flight: July 29, 2023
Last Flight: July 29, 2023
Flights: 1

Landing Information

B1074 was expended after its first flight.

Core will be expended.

B1065

Status: Active


Type: Strap-On Booster
Flight Proven: Yes
First Flight: November 1, 2022
Last Flight: October 13, 2023
Flights: 4
Landings Attempted: 4
Landings Successful: 4
Previous B1065 Flights

Landing Information

The sidebooster has landed back at the launch site after its 3rd flight.

Result: Successful Return to Launch Site landing at Landing Zone 2.

SpaceX

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CEO: Elon Musk Founded: 2002 Successes: 293 Failures: 11 Pending: 138

Agency Type: Commercial

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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