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Static Fire Test Completed for SpaceX Falcon Heavy Rocket Launch Set for April 18 from Cape Canaveral

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coverage of the launch can be seen on Space Coast Daily TV

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket carrying ViaSat 3 Americas broadband communications satellite is set for April 18 from Cape Canaveral.

BREVARD COUNTY • CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA – A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket carrying ViaSat 3 Americas broadband communications satellite is set for April 18 from Cape Canaveral.

SpaceX officials say they successfully conducted a static fire of Falcon Heavy on Thursday.

The launch is targeted for 7:29 p.m. ET next Tuesday.

ViaSat 3 Americas is the first of at least three new-generation Boeing-built geostationary satellites for ViaSat.

A small communications satellite named Arcturus will launch as a secondary payload for Astranis.

Coverage of the launch can be seen on Space Coast Daily TV.