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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
Launches832
Successes687

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, temperature not reported

Mission Timeline

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Launch site

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Launch Complex 39A

Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

Global range
SITE LOCK
Latitude
28.608°N
Longitude
80.604°W

Range Weather

Launch commit criteria

85%
GO
Favorable1 active constraints
Weather Rules
Thick Cloud Layers Rule
Primary concern
Thick Cloud Layers Rule
Rule count
1
Temperature
Not reported
Surface wind
Not reported
Window

02:13 PM UTC - 03:38 PM UTC

Delay History

7
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