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SpaceX · Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

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Falcon Heavy | Gateway PPE & HALO

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What this is

People are riding this Falcon Heavy. SpaceX is launching them from Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA. Everyone who loves them will be watching the clock.

SpaceX is flying a Falcon Heavy from Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA. Mission: Gateway PPE & HALO. The Power and Propulsion Element (PPE) and Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO) are the foundational elements of NASA's lunar-orbiting space station "Gateway". The PPE is a 60-kilowatt class solar electric propulsion spacecraft that also will provide power, high-speed communications, attitude control and the capability to move the Gateway to different lunar orbits. The HALO is the pressurized living quarters where astronauts who visit the Gateway, often on their way to the Moon, will work. It will provide command and control and serve as the docking hub for the outpost. HALO will support science investigations, distribute power, provide communications for visiting vehicles and lunar surface expeditions, and supplement the life support systems aboard Orion, NASA’s spacecraft that will deliver Artemis astronauts to the Gateway. Planned orbit: Lunar Orbit. Status: To Be Determined. Current date is a placeholder or rough estimation based on unreliable or interpreted sources.

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From here

Too far to see

You will not see this rocket from Centennial, Colorado. It is about 1,575 miles east. The broadcast is the view.

That is too far for the flame and, for almost every launch, too far for the high-altitude plume. Dim the lights and watch together anyway.

Public places

Viewing spots

Places run by a park or a visitor center near this site. A listing is not a promise you can see the rocket from there.

Space jobs corner

Who is on this flight

Every company we can name, in plain words, plus a careers page when we have a real one.

Careers links are public pages we know. If we do not have one, we do not invent it.

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Only what the listing says

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So the slip still finds you

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