SpaceX Falcon Heavy Launches Roman Space Telescope

Instantaneous launch window: August 30th at 7:25:49AM EDT (11:25:49 UTC)

Mission: Falcon Heavy launch of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
Launch location: Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, Earth.
Target orbit: Transfer orbit to Sun-Earth Lagrange Point 2 (L2)
Center Core: B1XXX-1
Center Core history: New Booster
Center Core Recovery: None, will be expended
MY Side Booster: B1072-3; 122d 21h 13min turnaround
MY Side Booster history: GOES-U and Viasat-3 F3
PY Side Booster: B1XXX-1
PY Side Booster history: New Booster
Side boosters recovery: Landing Zone 2 (LZ-2) and Landing Zone 40 (LZ-40)
Fairing halves: Unknown
Fairing recovery: Doug
Rocket trajectory: East-Northeast
Payload mass: Approximately 10.5 metric tons
Stats:
– SpaceX’s 714th launch overall.
– SpaceX’s 105th launch of the year.
– SpaceX’s 14th and last launch of the month.
– Earth’s 206th orbital launch of the year.
– Falcon’s 332nd launch since the last failure.
– Falcon Heavy’s 13th orbital flight.
– SpaceX’s 127th launch from LC-39A.
– 19th landing on LZ-2 out of 19 attempts.
– 6th landing on LZ-40 out of 6 attempts.
– 112th and 113th landing of a Falcon booster on land out of 113 and 114 attempts.
– 656th and 657th overall landing of a Falcon booster out of 668 and 669 attempts.
– 315th and 316th successful landing by a Falcon booster since the last failed one.

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