SpaceX Falcon Heavy Rocket Deploys Massive Satellite
- Satellite is for wireless internet connectivity over Americas
- Takeoff is the third for SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket in 2023
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SpaceX’s most powerful operational rocket successfully carried the world’s largest commercial communications satellite into orbit high above Earth.
Space Exploration Technologies Corp.’s three-fuselage Falcon Heavy took off with the massive payload at 11:04 p.m. local time Friday from the company’s launchpad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The satellite was deployed about three and a half hours after liftoff.