SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch, NASA Kennedy Space Center top space newsletter
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center Pad 39A on Wednesday, April 29, carrying the ViaSat-3 F3 communications satellite into geosynchronous transfer orbit. The launch was initially scrubbed on Monday due to weather conditions.
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center Pad 39A on Wednesday, April 29, at 10:13 a.m. The rocket carried the ViaSat-3 F3 communications satellite into geosynchronous transfer orbit. The launch was initially scheduled for Monday but was scrubbed due to weather conditions, with the countdown reaching T-23 seconds before being aborted. The successful launch was followed by the landing of two boosters back on Earth, producing a double sonic boom in Brevard County. Amentum is hiring about 100 workers to support NASA's Artemis III, IV, and V missions at Kennedy Space Center.
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