SpaceX launches 6-ton ViaSat-3 F3 satellite on Falcon Heavy rocket

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, carrying the ViaSat-3 F3 satellite, lifts off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on April 29, 2026. The 27 Merlin engines of the three Falcon boosters roared to life at 10:13 a.m. EDT, propelling the 70-meter-tall rocket with 5 million pounds of thrust. Less than 2.5 minutes after liftoff, side boosters B1072 and B1075 separated and landed at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The center core continued to the second stage burn, which delivered the ViaSat-3 F3 satellite to a geosynchronous transfer orbit.

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