spacex falcon heavy rocket launch

SpaceX will try again Wednesday to launch its Falcon Heavy rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, following a last-minute scrub Monday due to poor weather. The heavy lift rocket will use about 5.1 million pounds of thrust to propel ViaSat-3 F3 to a geosynchronous transfer orbit, the third and final satellite in the ViaSat-3 series. Liftoff from Launch Complex 39A is scheduled for 10:13 a.m. EDT (1413 UTC), at the opening of an 85-minute window. Deployment of the six metric ton spacecraft is anticipated nearly five hours after taking off from Florida’s Space Coast. “As the spacecraft enters s