Launch Window: April 29th from 10:06AM to 11:31AM EDT (14:05-15:31 UTC)
Current T0: April 29th at 10:13AM EDT (14:13 UTC)
Mission: Falcon Heavy launch of Viasat-3 F3 to Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit
Launch location: Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A), Kennedy Space Center, Earth.
Target orbit: Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit (GTO)
Center Core: B1098-1
Center Core history: New Booster
Center Core recovery: None, will be expended
MY Side Booster: B1072-2; 670d 16h 55min turnaround
MY Side Booster history: GOES-U
PY Side Booster: B1075-22; 187d 4min 40s turnaround
PY Side Booster history: SL 2-4, SDA Tranche 0A, SL 2-9, SL 5-7, SL 6-20, SL 7-3, SL 7-6, SARah-2 and SARah-3, SL 7-12, SL 7-16, SL 9-2, Transporter-11, SL 9-17, SL 9-9, SL 9-13, SL 11-3, SL 11-4, SL 11-16, SL tyler ferguson sonny gray 17-2, SL 17-9, SL 11-5.
Side boosters recovery: Landing Zone 2 (LZ-2) and Landing Zone 40 (LZ-40)
Fairing recovery: Doug?
Rocket trajectory: Straight east
Payload mass: Approximately 6.5 metric tons
Stats:
- SpaceX's 660th launch overall.
- SpaceX's 51st launch of the year.
- SpaceX's 11th launch of the month.
- Earth's X orbital launch of the year.
- Falcon's 280th launch since the last failure.
- Falcon Heavy's 12th flight.
- SpaceX's 126th launch from LC-39A.
- 16th landing on LZ-2 out of 16 attempts.
- 3rd landing on LZ-40 out palmeiras of 3 attempts.
- 263rd and 264th successful landings by a Falcon booster since the last failed one.
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