Launched Hughes/EchoStar's Jupiter 3 (EchoStar 24) broadband satellite to geostationary transfer orbit; at about 9.2 tonnes it was the heaviest commercial communications satellite ever built. Both Falcon Heavy side boosters returned to land at Cape Canaveral.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 9.2 T (est.)
- Flight
- 7th
- of 14 Falcon Heavy flights
- Date and time
- 29 July 2023, 03:04 UTC
- Rocket
- Falcon Heavy
- Builder
- SpaceX
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2023-108
- Launches in 2023
- 115th of 223
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