SCRUBBED: SpaceX Falcon Heavy Rocket Launch Postponed Friday Night at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center
By Space Coast Daily // April 28, 2023
coverage of the launch can be seen on Space Coast Daily TV
ABOVE VIDEO: SpaceX Set for Falcon Heavy Rocket Launch Friday Night at 8:26 p.m. ET from Kennedy Space Center.
ABOVE VIDEO: SpaceX is targeting Friday, April 28 for a Falcon Heavy launch of the ViaSat-3 Americas mission to geostationary orbit from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Also on board this mission is Astranis’s first MicroGEO satellite and Gravity Space’s GS-1 satellite.
BREVARD COUNTY • CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA – SpaceX is targeting Friday, April 28 for a Falcon Heavy launch of the ViaSat-3 Americas mission to geostationary orbit from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Also on board this mission is Astranis’s first MicroGEO satellite and Gravity Space’s GS-1 satellite.
The 57-minute launch window opens at 7:29 p.m. ET (23:29 UTC).
One of the side boosters on this mission previously supported Arabsat-6A, STP-2, COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation FM2, KPLO, and three Starlink missions, and the second previously supported launch of Arabsat-6A and STP-2.
A live webcast of this mission will begin about 15 minutes prior to liftoff.
Coverage of the launch can be seen on Space Coast Daily TV.
