We get a treat tomorrow: Falcon Heavy launch from Kennedy Space Center

SpaceX's Falcon Heavy, their heavy lift vehicle until Starship gets certified, will launch tomorrow morning for the first time in 18 months. 

A Falcon Heavy topped with the huge ViaSat-3 F3 communications satellite will launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday (April 27), during an 85-minute window that opens at 10:21 a.m. EDT (1421 GMT). 

The last FH launch 18 months ago (October of 2024) was to start NASA's Europa Clipper on its five year journey to Jupiter's moon by that name. 

Falcon Heavy is the second strongest rocket in the US' fleet, second only to the Space Launch System or SLS, used for Artemis launches. The most recent ViaSat-3 Flight 2 or F2 was launched by an Atlas V in November of 2025, and the first, F1, rode a Falcon Heavy in April 2023. It appears to have been April 30 but for some reason I don't seem to have any posts of the launch, just of some rescheduling earlier in the month. 

Getting back to this mission, 

The 6.6-ton (6 metric tons) satellite is headed to geostationary orbit (GEO) which lies 22,236 miles (35,786 kilometers) above Earth. At that altitude, orbital velocity matches our planet's rotational speed, allowing satellites to "hover" over the same patch of real estate continuously. 
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The Falcon Heavy's two side boosters will come back for a landing at Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station about eight minutes after launch on Monday, if all goes to plan. The central booster won't be recovered; it will fall into the Atlantic Ocean when its work is done.

The Falcon Heavy's upper stage, meanwhile, will carry ViaSat-3 F3 to geosynchronous transfer orbit, deploying it there about five hours after launch.

The Falcon Heavy lifts off Oct. 14, 2024 from the Kennedy Space Center carrying NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft. Credit: Brandon Lindner