USSF-52

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Overview

Destination: Unknown
Mission: Government/Top Secret

Unknown Launch Complex 39A Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Unknown FH - Landing Zone 2 B1084 - Atlantic Ocean Unknown FH - Landing Zone 1

Classified payload for the U.S. Air Force.

Telemetry

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Updates

Cosmic_Penguin • July 3, 2023, 12:53 a.m.

NET Q4 2023.


Cosmic_Penguin • June 23, 2023, 4:43 a.m.

NET September 2023.


Nosu • May 5, 2023, 7:33 p.m.

NET July 7


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.

See Falcon Details
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


Unknown FH


Type: Strap-On Booster
Flight Proven: No

Landing Information

B1065 will attempt to landed back at the launch site after its third flight.

Landing Attempt Confirmed

B1084


Type: Core
Flight Proven: No

Landing Information

The Falcon Heavy core stage will be expended.

Core will be expended.

Unknown FH


Type: Strap-On Booster
Flight Proven: No

Landing Information

B1064 will attempt to landed back at the launch site after its third flight.

Landing Attempt Confirmed

SpaceX

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CEO: Elon Musk Founded: 2002 Successes: 270 Failures: 10 Pending: 135

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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Spaceflight Now

Launch preps underway for first of up to five Falcon Heavy missions this year

SpaceX is set to kick off a busy week of launch preparations at Kennedy Space Center for the first of five planned Falcon Heavy rocket missions this year, targeting a dusk departure no earlier than Thursday evening from Launch Complex 39A …

SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket is scheduled to launch five times next year

SpaceNews

Falcon Heavy could launch three U.S. Space Force missions in 2022

USSF-67 is the third U.S. national security launch to be added to the Falcon Heavy’s crowded 2022 manifest.

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SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket still on track for two launches this year

Spaceflight Now reports that SpaceX’s next two Falcon Heavy rockets – both under contract with the US military – are scheduled to...

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SpaceX planning launch of two Falcon Heavy missions in summer and fall

SpaceX plans two Falcon Heavy launches this year for the U.S. Space Force in July and October, and United Launch Alliance has four national security space missions on its 2021 schedule, according to a military spokesperson.

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