Falcon Heavy - B1053


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Status - Expended

Stage Expended

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 B1052 - Flight Proven ( ) Atlantic Ocean B1068 - Maiden Flight Atlantic Ocean B1053 - Flight Proven ( ) Atlantic Ocean
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Falcon Heavy | STP-2

SpaceX | United States of America
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
June 25, 2019, 6:30 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

The STP-2 payload is composed of 25 small spacecraft. Included is COSMIC-2 constellation to provide radio occultation data, along with 8 cubesat nanosatellites. Other payloads include LightSail carried by the Prox-1 nanosatellite, Oculus-ASR nanosatellite, GPIM and the Deep Space Atomic Clock.

Low Earth Orbit #STP2 B1057 - Maiden Flight Of Course I Still Love You B1052 - Flight Proven ( ) Landing Zone 1 B1053 - Flight Proven ( ) Landing Zone 2
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Falcon Heavy | Arabsat-6A

SpaceX | United States of America
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
April 11, 2019, 10:35 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

Arabsat-6A is a Saudi Arabian communications satellite to be positioned at 30.5°East orbital slot. Arabsat-6A was built by Lockheed Martin for Arabsat and will deliver TV, internet and mobile phone services to the Middle East, Africa and Europe.

Supersynchronous Transfer Orbit #ArabSat6A B1053 - Maiden Flight Landing Zone 2 B1052 - Maiden Flight Landing Zone 1 B1055 - Maiden Flight Of Course I Still Love You
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Kuaizhou 11
Success
21 hours, 50 minutes ago
8 satellites
Launch Area 95A - Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

Ride-share launch of 8 satellites to sun-synchronous orbit. Details TBD.


Long March 6A
Success
1 day, 12 hours ago
Yaogan 50-02
Launch Complex 9A - Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

The Yaogan 50-02 is a Chinese military “remote sensing” satellite of unknown purposes.


Falcon 9
Success
2 days, 13 hours ago
Starlink Group 10-48
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

A batch of 29 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.


Falcon 9
Success
3 days, 11 hours ago
Starlink Group 17-31
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

A batch of 25 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.


Long March 2D
Success
4 days, 3 hours ago
Shiyan 30 03-04
Launch Complex 3 (LC-3/LA-1) - Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

A pair of Chinese satellites reported to be for "Earth observation technological testing and validation" purposes. Actual usage not known.