Updated: May 1, 2023 at 1:58 PM
SpaceX launches ViaSat communications satellite (9 images)
By Wade Sheridan and Darryl Coote
SpaceX successfully launched the ViaSat-3 Americas broadband satellite for global communications company ViaSat from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 30, 2023. Also aboard the payload, launched by SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket, were two other satellites.
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket launches the ViaSat-3 Americas satellite from Complex 39 at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 30, 2023. Photo by Joe Marino/UPI
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The two-stage rocket -- loaded with the ViaSat-3, as well as satellites by Astranis and Gravity Space -- was scheduled to launch Friday evening but the mission was aborted with less than a minute left in the countdown due to stormy weather. Photo by Joe Marino/UPI
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On Sunday, the rocket launched at 8:26 p.m. from historic Launch Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Station in Florida following an hour delay due to ground winds. This image shows a close-up look at the exhaust plume from the rocket. Photo by Joe Marino/UPI
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