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Falcon Heavy | USSF-44

USSF-44

SpaceX · Falcon Heavy · Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

SpaceX's 202nd launch · 50th this year · humanity's 6,331st orbital launch attempt

November 1, 2022Add to calendar
Success95% go

The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).

Window: Nov 1, 13:41Nov 1, 14:11 UTC

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USSF-44

Classified US Space Force carrying two payloads directly to geostationary orbit. One is called the Shepherd Demonstration, and the other is LDPE 2 spacecraft that carries three hosted payloads and three deployable sub-satellites. One of them is an experimental microsatellite called TETRA-1.

Government/Top Secret · Geostationary Orbit (Direct-GEO)

Booster

  • B1066 · flight 1 · expendable · zone record 38/42
  • B1065 · flight 1 · Return to Launch Site @ Landing Zone 2 · landed ✓ · zone record 17/17
  • B1064 · flight 1 · Return to Launch Site @ Landing Zone 1 · landed ✓ · zone record 53/54

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Updates

  • Successful launch of Falcon Heavy for the United States Space Force.

    Jay · 11/2/2022 · source

  • Liftoff

    Nosu · 11/1/2022 · source

  • Webcast live

    Nosu · 11/1/2022 · source

  • Refined launch window.

    Cosmic_Penguin · 10/30/2022 · source

  • Weather 90%

    Jay · 10/29/2022 · source

  • Go for launch.

    Cosmic_Penguin · 10/28/2022 · source

  • Slip by 1 day.

    Cosmic_Penguin · 10/27/2022 · source

  • Adding launch time

    Nosu · 10/22/2022 · source

  • Delayed to October 31, towards the late morning EDT.

    Nosu · 10/20/2022 · source

  • NET October 28

    SwGustav · 10/5/2022 · source

Pad — Launch Complex 39A

222 launches from this pad · 281 from Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

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