A weekend launch could bring out the crowds to the Space Coast to enjoy both the powerful launch and the sonic booms that come with the double booster landing.
The boosters on USSF-67 flew on the last Falcon Heavy launch on Nov. 1, also a mission for the Space Force, and the first National Security Space Launch for SpaceX.
This flight looks to send up the Space Force’s second Continuous Broadcast Augmenting SATCOM communications satellite and the Long Duration Propulsive ESPA 3A, or LDPE 3A, ride share satellite that can host or deploy up to six payloads. SpaceX has a third Space Force mission dubbed USSF-52 expected in the first half of 2023 as well. Before last November’s launch, though, there had been more than a three-year drought between its third and fourth flights.
It first launched in 2018 amid hundreds of thousands who crowded along the Space Coast to witness the flight of Elon Musk’s Tesla roadster into space, which was acting as the test payload for the new rocket. SpaceX followed that up with a commercial payload in April 2019 and then a Department of Defense mission in June 2019.
Later in 2023, a Falcon Heavy will be used to send NASA’s Psyche probe on its way to the asteroid of the same name, a mission delayed from 2022.
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