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Falcon Heavy | ViaSat-3 F1 (ViaSat-3 Americas) & others
Falcon Heavy
May 1, 2023, 12:26 AM UTC
May 1, 2023, 12:26 AM UTC
Mission Elapsed Time
T-00:00:00
Booster History
Booster 1 of 3 · Strap-On Booster
B1053
Flight #3
Flight #3 · Last flown 2019-06-25
- Total Flights
- 3
- Recovery Rate
- 2/2 successful landings
- This Landing
- No landing attempt (expended)· Expended
- Recovery Site
- Atlantic Ocean (ATL)
- Last Flight
- Falcon Heavy | STP-2 · 1405-day turnaround
Landing Record
2 successful · 0 failed · 2 total
Booster 2 of 3 · Core
B1068
Flight #1 · NEW
First flight of this booster
- Total Flights
- 1
- Recovery Rate
- 0/0 successful landings
- This Landing
- No landing attempt (expended)· Expended
- Recovery Site
- Atlantic Ocean (ATL)
Booster 3 of 3 · Strap-On Booster
B1052
Flight #8
Flight #8 · Last flown 2022-09-05
- Total Flights
- 8
- Recovery Rate
- 7/7 successful landings
- This Landing
- No landing attempt (expended)· Expended
- Recovery Site
- Atlantic Ocean (ATL)
- Last Flight
- Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 4-20 & Varuna-TDM · 237-day turnaround
Landing Record
7 successful · 0 failed · 7 total
Mission Details
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.
- Type
- Communications
- Orbit
- Geostationary Orbit (Direct-GEO)
Launch Site
- Pad
- Launch Complex 39A
- Location
- Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Country
- 🇺🇸 USA