Falcon Heavy | ViaSat-3 F3 (ViaSat-3 Asia-Pacific)

Mission Status

Current T-0 confirmed by official or reliable sources.

Mission Updates

Apr 27, 06:08 PM Cosmic_Penguin

Rescheduled for April 29.

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Apr 27, 02:36 PM Cosmic_Penguin

Scrub for the due to weather.

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Apr 27, 02:21 PM hitura-nobad

Launch aborted due to weather.

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Apr 27, 02:03 PM LL2

Unofficial Re-stream by SPACE AFFAIRS has started

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Apr 27, 01:53 PM Cosmic_Penguin

Updated launch weather.

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Apr 26, 09:41 PM Cosmic_Penguin

Updated launch weather, 70% GO.

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Apr 26, 03:15 PM Cosmic_Penguin

Launch time is to the second.

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Apr 20, 02:33 PM Cosmic_Penguin

GO for launch.

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Mar 10, 08:03 PM hitura-nobad

NET April

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Jan 9, 05:38 PM Cosmic_Penguin

NET Q2 on Falcon Heavy.

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Sep 13, 09:10 PM Cosmic_Penguin

De-manifested from Ariane 6, new launch vehicle TBD.

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Oct 12, 03:06 PM Nosu

NET 2025

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Mission Details

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.

Mission Type Communications
Orbit Geostationary Transfer Orbit
Launch Window 02:13 PM - 03:38 PM

Rocket Configuration

Name Falcon Heavy
Manufacturer SpaceX
Height 70 m
Diameter 12.2 m
Maiden Flight 2018-02-06
Success Rate 11/11 (100%)

The Falcon Heavy is a variant of the Falcon 9 full thrust launch vehicle and consists of a standard Falcon 9 rocket core, with two additional boosters derived from the Falcon 9 first stage.