Falcon Heavy, reusable super heavy-lift launch vehicle, SpaceX, Hawthorne, California, USA

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Blastoff! SpaceX Falcon Heavy launches Arabsat-6A mission

Published on Apr 11, 2019

On its second flight, the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket launched the ArabSat-6 mission on April 11, 2019.

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Falcon Heavy launches Arabsat-6A

Published on Apr 11, 2019

For SpaceX’s Arabsat-6A mission, a Falcon Heavy rocket launched the Arabsat-6A telecommunications satellite from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A), at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on 11 April 2019, at 22:35 UTC (18:35 EDT). Following booster separation, Falcon Heavy’s two side boosters (Block 5 B1052 and B1053) landed at SpaceX’s Landing Zones 1 and 2 (LZ-1 and LZ-2) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Falcon Heavy’s center core (Block 5 B1055) landed on the “Of Course I Still Love You” droneship, stationed in the Atlantic Ocean.

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SpaceX Falcon Heavy landing - Arabsat-6A

Published on Apr 11, 2019

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Blastoff! SpaceX Falcon Heavy launches 24 satellites

Published on Jun 24, 2019

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket launched the Space Test Program 2 (STP-2) mission on Jun 25, 2019.

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Touchdowns! 2 SpaceX Falcon Heavy boosters land, 1 fails

Published on Jun 25, 2019

A SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket launched the STP-2 mission on June 25, 2019. During the return flight of the side boosters landed successfully on the ground but the center core failed to land on the "Of Course I Still Love You" droneship in the Atlantic Ocean.

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Falcon Heavy launches USSF-44 & Falcon Heavy boosters landing

Nov 1, 2022

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket launched the USSF-44 mission to a geosynchronous Earth orbit from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A), at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on 1 November 2022, at 13:41 UTC (09:41 EDT). Following booster separation, Falcon Heavy’s two side boosters (B1064 and B1065) landed at SpaceX’s Landing Zones 1 and 2 (LZ-1 and LZ-2) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Due to mission requirements, Falcon Heavy’s center core (B1066) was not planned to be recovered.

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Falcon Heavy launches USSF-67 and Falcon Heavy boosters landing

Jan 16, 2023

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket launched the USSF-67 mission to a geosynchronous Earth orbit from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A), at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on 15 January 2023, at 22:56 UTC (17:56 EST). Following booster separation, Falcon Heavy’s two side boosters (B1064 and B1065) landed at SpaceX’s Landing Zones 1 and 2 (LZ-1 and LZ-2) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Due to mission requirements, Falcon Heavy’s center core (B1070) was not planned to be recovered. As secondary payload, Falcon Heavy launched the Northrop Grumman-built LDPE-3A.

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Falcon Heavy launches ViaSat-3 Americas

May 1, 2023

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket launched the ViaSat-3 Americas mission to geostationary Earth orbit from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A), at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on 1 May 2023, at 00:26 UTC (30 April, at 20:26 EDT). As secondary payload, Falcon Heavy launched Astranis’s first MicroGEO satellite and Gravity Space’s GS-1 satellite. One side booster (B1052) previously supported Arabsat-6A, STP-2, COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation FM2, KPLO, and three Starlink missions. The other side booster (B1053) previously supported the Arabsat-6A and STP-2 missions. The core booster (B1068) was not previously launched. Due to mission requirements, none of the boosters were planned to be recovered.

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Falcon Heavy launches JUPITER 3

Jul 29, 2023

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket launched the JUPITER 3 (EchoStar XXIV/ EchoStar 24) communications satellite to a geosynchronous transfer orbit from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, on 29 July 2023, at 03:04 UTC (28 July, at 23:04 EDT).
Following booster separation, Falcon Heavy’s two side boosters (B1064 and B1065) landed at SpaceX’s Landing Zones 1 and 2 (LZ-1 and LZ-2) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, having previously supported USSF-44 and USSF-67. Due to mission requirements, the core booster (B1079) was not planned to be recovered.

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Psyche launch

Oct 13, 2023

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket launched NASA’s Psyche spacecraft from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, on 13 October 2023, at 14:19 UTC (10:19 EDT).
Following booster separation, Falcon Heavy’s two side boosters (B1064 and B1065) landed at SpaceX’s Landing Zones 1 and 2 (LZ-1 and LZ-2) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, having previously supported USSF-44, USSF-67 and JUPITER 3. Due to mission requirements, the core booster (B1079) was not planned to be recovered. NASA’s Psyche spacecraft will study a metal-rich asteroid with the same name, located in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

Psyche, asteroid orbiter