SpaceX set to launch Falcon Heavy tonight
As April is coming to a close, SpaceX crews are preparing to launch a Falcon Heavy rocket Sunday night at Cape Canaveral.
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The Falcon Heavy rocket aims to launch the ViaSat-3 Americas mission, which will send several communications satellites into orbit.
The Astranis’s first MicroGEO satellite and Gravity Space’s GS-1 satellite is also on board.
SpaceX tweeted that systems and weather should be favorable for the launch.
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