SCRUBBED: SpaceX Falcon Heavy Rocket Launch Scrubbed Thursday Night at Cape Canaveral Due to Weather
By Space Coast Daily // April 27, 2023
coverage of the launch can be seen on Space Coast Daily TV
ABOVE VIDEO: SpaceX is targeting Thursday, April 27 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). If needed, a backup opportunity is available Friday, April 28 with the same window.
BREVARD COUNTY • CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA – A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket carrying ViaSat 3 Americas broadband communications satellite 6 from Cape Canaveral has been delayed on Thursday due to unfavorable weather.
There is a backup launch opportunity for tomorrow. Stay tuned to Space Coast Daily for updates.
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.
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.
Coverage of the launch can be seen on Space Coast Daily TV.
