Falcon Heavy - B1068
Details
Status - Expended
Falcon Heavy core booster expended on its first flight as part of the ViaSat-3 Americas mission.
Falcon Heavy | ViaSat-3 Americas & others
SpaceX | United States of AmericaKennedy 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.
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