ViaSat-3 Americas & Others

Launch Success

Liftoff Time (GMT)

00:26:00

Monday May 1, 2023

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Launch Notes

First Falcon Heavy launch to expend all three cores, and first Falcon Heavy launch to use flight-proven fairing halves. Additionally, this was the 100th reuse of flight-proven fairing halves in the Falcon family, and the furthest downrange recovery of fairing halves, at 1960km downrange.

ViaSat-3 Americas

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The ViaSat-3 class of Ka-band satellites is expected to provide vastly superior capabilities in terms of service speed and flexibility for a satellite platform. The first two satellites will focus on the Americas and on Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), respectively, with the third satellite planned for the Asia Pacific (APAC) region, completing Viasat's global service coverage. 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.

Geostationary Earth Orbit

1 Payload

6,400 kilograms

Arcturus

Arcturus is a telecommunications satellite built and operated by Astranis Space Technologies with capacity leased exclusively to Pacific Dataport. The spacecraft will provide high-speed internet to remote areas in Alaska.

Geostationary Earth Orbit

1 Payload

300 kilograms

G-Space 1 (Nusantara H-1A)

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The CubeSat was placed in a geostationary orbit and will host several payloads, including Earth observation, scientific experiments, and bring-into-use (BIU) services at Ku, Ka, and V/Q frequency bands. One of the payloads, Nusantara H-1A, is an Indonesian placeholder satellite that will temporarily use the frequencies of a geostationary orbital slot reserved for a delayed communications satellite, allowing Indonesia to retain the rights to those frequencies. Another payload, called Orbit Guard, is being developed by Infinite Orbits, and it will use next-generation computer vision capabilities driven by machine learning-based estimation techniques to track Resident Space Objects (RSOs) for Space Situational Awareness.

Geostationary Earth Orbit

1 Payload

22 kilograms

Rocket

Active
Falcon Heavy

Active Since 2018

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Agency

SpaceX

Price

$97.00 million

Rocket

Height: 70m

Payload to Orbit

LEO: 63,800 kg

GTO: 26,700 kg

Liftoff Thrust

22,819 Kilonewtons

Fairing

Diameter: 5.2m

Height: 13m

Stages

2

Strap-ons

2

Launch Site

LC-39A

Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA

Fastest Turnaround

5 days 6 hours

Stats

Falcon Heavy


6th

Mission

2nd

Mission of 2023

SpaceX


233rd

Mission

29th

Mission of 2023

2023


65th

Orbital launch attempt