SpaceX Falcon Heavy USSF-44

Name: SpaceX Falcon Heavy USSF-44
Start: 2022-11-01T13:41:00.000Z
Location: Launch Complex 39A

Falcon Heavy

Status

Success

Date

1 NOV 2022

13:41

Launch Provider

SpaceX

Launch Pad

Launch Complex 39A

Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

Mission Overview

Classified US Space Force carrying two payloads directly to geostationary orbit. One is called the Shepherd Demonstration, and the other is LDPE 2 spacecraft that carries three hosted payloads and three deployable sub-satellites. One of them is an experimental microsatellite called TETRA-1.

Rocket

Falcon Heavy

Mission Type

Government/Top Secret

Orbit

Geostationary Orbit

Stages

Livestream

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Rocket Details

The Falcon Heavy is a variant of the Falcon 9 full thrust launch vehicle and consists of a standard Falcon 9 rocket core, with two additional boosters derived from the Falcon 9 first stage.

Height

70 m

Diameter

12.2 m

Launch Mass

1,400 T

Thrust

22,819 kN