Miami, Apr 29 (EFE).- The SpaceX company will try again to launch its Falcon 9 Heavy rocket to put satellites of the telecommunications companies Astranis and ViaSat into orbit, which has had to be postponed three times.
By Sunday there is an 80% chance that the weather conditions in Cape Canaveral (Florida) will be favorable, the private space company reported on Twitter.
On Friday, with 59 seconds left for liftoff, scheduled for 8:26 p.m. (0026 GMT) from Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, SpaceX decided to abort the launch for unknown reasons.
“Vehicle and payload remain in good condition,” according to another message on Twitter.
Launches had previously been canceled on the 26th and 27th due to bad weather conditions in the area.
The window for the launch of Sunday April 30 is 57 minutes and will open at 19:29 local time (23.29 GMT).
The two satellites carried by the powerful Falcon 8 Heavy will be placed in geostationary orbit, that is, at an altitude of about 35,000 kilometers above the equator, about five hours after takeoff.
The main payload is the ViaSat-3 Americas satellite, about 12,000 pounds (5,400 kilograms) in weight and about the size of a school bus, made by California-based internet and communications firm ViaSat.
The other is the Arcturus satellite from the Astranis firm, weighing just over 300 kilos and which will provide high-speed connectivity in the Alaska region and surroundings, according to the company.
The Falcon Heavy consists of three Falcon 9 rocket cores that form a compact booster that soars, powered by 27 Merlin engines and powered by 18 commercial aircraft.
According to SpaceX, the Falcon Heavy is considered “one of the world’s most powerful operational rockets” and can lift nearly 64 metric tons into orbit.
This 70 meter high and 12 meter wide rocket made its first test flight in 2018, when it put a Tesla car into space, which was followed by four other launches, the last of which was with the classified mission USSF- 67 carried out in January of this year on behalf of the US Space Force.
