First Falcon Heavy national-security launch for the US Space Force, carrying the Tetra-1 satellite and an LDPE-2 ESPA ring with six smallsats on a direct-inject GEO trajectory; both side boosters landed back at Kennedy Space Center while the center core was expended.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.4 T (est.)
- Flight
- 4th
- of 14 Falcon Heavy flights
- Date and time
- 1 November 2022, 13:41 UTC
- Rocket
- Falcon Heavy
- Builder
- SpaceX
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 2022-144
- Launches in 2022
- 149th of 186
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