Falcon Heavy - B1068


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Status - Expended

Falcon Heavy core booster expended on its first flight as part of the ViaSat-3 Americas mission.

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

SpaceX | United States of America
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
May 1, 2023, 12:26 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
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.

Geostationary Orbit B1053 - Flight Proven ( ) Atlantic Ocean B1068 - Maiden Flight Atlantic Ocean B1052 - Flight Proven ( ) Atlantic Ocean
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