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SpaceX Launches Falcon Heavy Mission After Several Delays

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SpaceX has launched its sixth Falcon Heavy mission, carrying ViaSat-3 Americas and other satellites, after several delays, the company informs.

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"Liftoff!" SpaceX said on Twitter on Sunday, adding in a later post that the first payload deployment is expected within hours.The Falcon Heavy carrier rocket was launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 8:26 p.m. on Sunday (00:26 GMT on Monday), following days of delay due to unfavorable weather conditions.Apart from ViaSat-3 Americas, a 14,000-pound broadband satellite that will be operated by California-based company Viasat, the mission’s payload includes Astranis's first MicroGEO satellite and Gravity Space’s GS-1 satellite.

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SpaceX Launches Falcon Heavy Mission After Several Delays

08:56 01.05.2023 (Updated: 10:48 03.08.2023)

© AP Photo / John RaouxA SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with a payload of second-generation Starlink V2 Mini internet satellites lifts off from pad 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force station in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Wednesday, April 19, 2023.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with a payload of second-generation Starlink V2 Mini internet satellites lifts off from pad 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force station in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Wednesday, April 19, 2023. - Sputnik Africa, 1920, 01.05.2023

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - SpaceX has launched its sixth Falcon Heavy mission, carrying ViaSat-3 Americas and other satellites, after several delays, the company informs.

"Liftoff!" SpaceX said on Twitter on Sunday, adding in a later post that the first payload deployment is expected within hours.

The Falcon Heavy carrier rocket was launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 8:26 p.m. on Sunday (00:26 GMT on Monday), following days of delay due to unfavorable weather conditions.

Apart from ViaSat-3 Americas, a 14,000-pound broadband satellite that will be operated by California-based company Viasat, the mission’s payload includes Astranis's first MicroGEO satellite and Gravity Space’s GS-1 satellite.