Falcon Heavy | USSF-44
Status: Success | Launched: Nov 01, 2022 13:41 UTC
Launch Provider & Rocket
- Provider: SpaceX (Commercial)
- Rocket: Falcon Heavy — Falcon family
Mission
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.
- Type: Government/Top Secret
- Orbit: Geostationary Orbit (Direct-GEO)
Launch Site
- Pad: Launch Complex 39A
- Location: Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
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