Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars. SpaceX operates from many pads, on the East Coast of the US they operate from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and historic LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center. They also operate from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, usually for polar launches. Another launch site is being developed at Boca Chica, Texas.
Type: Commercial
Successful Launch / Total Launch: 638 / 653
Number of launch attempt this year: 43
Launchers: Falcon | Starship
Spacecraft: Dragon
Viasat is an American communications company based in Carlsbad, California, with additional operations across the United States and worldwide. Viasat is a provider of high-speed satellite broadband services and secure networking systems covering military and commercial markets.
Type: Commercial
Successful Launch / Total Launch : 0 / 0
Launchers: -
Spacecraft: -
The Falcon Heavy is a variant of the Falcon 9 full thrust launch vehicle and consists of a standard Falcon 9 rocket core, with two additional boosters derived from the Falcon 9 first stage.
Successful Launch / Total Launch : 11 / 11
Height: 70.0 m
Diameter: 12.2 m
Liftoff Mass: 1400 t
Liftoff Thrust: 22819 kN
Cost: 90000000 €
LEO / GTO capacity: 63800 kg / 26700 kg
Apogee: 200 km
1st flight: 2018-02-06
The ViaSat-3 is a series of three Ka-band satellites is expected to provide vastly superior capabilities in terms of service speed and flexibility for a satellite platform. Each ViaSat-3 class satellite is expected to deliver more than 1-Terabit per second of network capacity, and to leverage high levels of flexibility to dynamically direct capacity to where customers are located.
Type: Communications
Orbit: Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO)
Window: 2026-04 NDY
Location: Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Launches from the pad this year / Total launches from the pad: 0 / 221
Total launches from the location: 279
Timezone: America/New_York