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ViaSat-3 F3 (ViaSat-3 Asia-Pacific)

Falcon HeavySpaceXLaunch Complex 39A
Wednesday, April 29, 2026 · 02:13 PM UTCAdd to Calendar

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Falcon Heavy

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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 st...

Height70 m
LEO Payload63,800 kg
Launches801
Successes664

Provider

USA • Founded 2002

Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur E...

Mission Brief

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.

PayloadViaSat-3 F3 (ViaSat-3 Asia-Pacific)
OrbitGeostationary Transfer Orbit
CustomerSpaceX
Stages3
PadLaunch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
WeatherThick Cloud Layers Rule, N/A

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Launch Site

Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

LAUNCH SITE
28.608°N, 80.604°W

Weather

Condition
Thick Cloud Layers Rule
Temperature
N/A
Wind
N/A
GO Probability
85%

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