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  1. Photo: U.S. Space Force photo by Gwendolyn Kurzen / Public domain

    ViaSat-3 F3

    Falcon Heavy flies again after a gap of nearly 18 months

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    SpaceX launched a Falcon Heavy from Launch Complex 39A with the Boeing-built ViaSat-3 F3 satellite, the 12th Falcon Heavy flight and the first since October 2024. Both side boosters landed, and the second stage made a nominal orbit insertion.

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  2. Hughes JUPITER 3

    A Falcon Heavy, a stuck valve and the biggest commercial satellite

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    Hughes JUPITER 3 was a communications satellite of over nine tons, built by Maxar for EchoStar's Hughes Network Systems and described on air as the largest commercial communication satellite launched into geostationary orbit. A Falcon Heavy launched it from Kennedy Space Center late on 28 July 2023, after a countdown abort at T-minus 1 minute 5 seconds two days before.

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