SpaceX FH - Jupiter 3 (Echostar 24) - LC-39A

Launch Date: July 28
Launch Window: 11:04pm EDT (8:04pm PDT/0304 UTC on 29th) - 99min launch window
Launch site: LC-39A, Cape Canaveral, Florida
Side Booster Recovery: RTLS - LZ-1 and LZ-2
Core Booster Recovery: Expended
Boosters: Side Boosters: B1064.3 and B1065.3 Center Core: B1074.1
Mass: 9200 kg (heaviest GEO satellite ever)
Orbit: GTO
Yearly Launch Number: 51

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket will launch the Jupiter 3/EchoStar 24 broadband communications satellite. Built by Maxar, Jupiter 3/EchoStar 24 is a Ka-band high-throughput ultra high density satellite for EchoStar’s Hughes Network Systems. Jupiter 3/EchoStar 24 will support in-flight WiFi, maritime connections, enterprise networks, backhaul for mobile network operators, and community WiFi solutions across the Americas.

EchoStar 24 (Jupiter 3) will be the heaviest geostationary satellite ever launched, at just over 9 metric tons. SpaceX also launched the previous heaviest satellite Telstar 19 Vantage at 7080kg on Falcon 9 B1047 on July 22. 2018.

Jupiter 3 / EchoStar 24

Space Systems/Loral (SSL) announced in August 2017 that it has been selected by Hughes Network Systems, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of EchoStar...

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[Grendal]

Updated.

 

[808?]

 

[Grendal]

Weather is good. It's surprising they aren't going for a double header tonight.

 

[ecarfan]

Scrubbed! Damn. No reason given? I just tuned in.

 

[bmah]

Scrubbed! Damn. No reason given? I just tuned in.

No, not as of the end of the web cast.

Bruce.

 

[808?]

Updated stream link:

 

[JB47394]

Updated stream link:

Today's Space Force weather analysis says there's a 60% chance of a scrub. Tomorrow's odds are better; a 35% chance.

Edit: This is the same information source that Grendal posted above, but updated for today and tomorrow.

 

[MyJoule]

And delayed until the 28th. Same bat time same bat channel

 

[Grendal]

Complete success so far. Launch, BECO, boostback burn, MECO, SES-1, Landings of both boosters, good orbit, SES-2, and good GTO insertion. Just waiting on SES-3 and payload deployment for the heaviest GS-satellite ever.

 

[HVM]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1685143968265252864

https://twitter.com/x/status/1685138021237100544

 

[ecarfan]

Impressive mission to be sure.

The side booster landing burns started a bit farther apart in time than usual, so the landings were not quite in synch. SpaceX needs to work on that.

 

[JB47394]

The side booster landing burns started a bit farther apart in time than usual, so the landings were not quite in synch.

I noticed that the entry burns were also not in synch. That suggests that the boostback burns were not perfectly matched. That may have been intentional. I guess we'll have to wait for more Falcon Heavy launches to find out.