Replay: SpaceX launches first expendable Falcon Heavy

SpaceX launched a Falcon Heavy from the Kennedy Space Center at 8:26 p.m. EDT (0026 UTC) on Apr. 30, 2023, carrying the ViaSat 3 Americas broadband satellite. The demanding flight profile prevented SpaceX from reusing all three of the rocket’s first stage boosters.

Commentary provided by Spaceflight Now's Stephen Clark and Steven Young.

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[SuerteDelMolinoFarm]

Greetings from the LooseNatural farm in Andalusia Spain where we currently live through a drought and we look up to the skies and see falcon heavy!

[letitgrow]

I saw that on my drive home tonight. It was cool to see.

[DJKinney]

I watched it at the pier. Grown men laughed and cried. Man that thing is huge.

[willellison]

Was fixing some fence when I saw it. Scared my nephew to death. Thought we were about to get nuked.

[troutman]

wtf was that @ T+00:29:09?? 1:40:29

[stormysyndrome]

lol so what was making it's way from the ground past the rocket at 1:14:59? We just gunna pretend that didn't happen?

[Deerslyr]

1:18:16 so what’s up with this jump in time and completely different engine base?? 🤜🤛👍🙋🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️🤦‍♂️🌿🤙

[스범범]

why do spaceX use expendable Falcon Heavy?

[Grama]

Rip B1068 which we abandoned from its first launch 😭

[moniquecarpenter]

🎉🎉🎉🎉 wtg, nice launch. They never get old

[JulesUS]

Last year February 2022

New York
CNN Business
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Up to 40 of SpaceX’s Starlink satellites are expected to fall out of orbit thanks to some inopportune timing: The company launched the satellites directly into a solar storm.

Why would they launch during a solar storm when solar weather is monitored constantly?

[theopposing]

Okay seen a couple rockets launch, but what about whats beyond. What about the videos of the travel to said places. If you ask me its only being shown to us.

[markjob]

It really is preferable that you stop talking at least 1 minute before launch. Please lets us the viewers enjoy the moment. 🙏

[romandefrance]

Those hysterical kids shouting, screaming is just

[southofhollywood]

Hard to believe that the same company that launched this beauty also launched the Starship fiasco.