KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. – SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket launched the ViaSat-3 Americas mission Sunday evening from Kennedy Space Center with a beautiful nighttime view.
The rocket was originally scheduled to go up from Launch Complex 39A during a 57-minute launch window that opened at 7:29 p.m.
But SpaceX pushed the launch toward the end of the window because of ground winds, launching it about an hour later.
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Liftoff! pic.twitter.com/EQMJRunDXH
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) May 1, 2023
The launch was delayed from Saturday to Sunday due to severe weather in the forecast at the time. All of that followed a scrub on Friday and another on Thursday, also due to the weather, and a delay from Wednesday to review data.
Making up the rocket’s two payloads are a ViaSat-3 communications satellite and a small communications satellite named Arcturus, the latter unit deployed on behalf of Astranis.
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