This Falcon Heavy is aimed farther than a lap around Earth. SpaceX is sending it from Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA. The ride starts as a very loud climb, then a long quiet coast.
SpaceX is flying a Falcon Heavy from Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA. Mission: Griffin Mission One. Demonstration flight of the Astrobotic Griffin lander and its engines, initially contracted for the NASA VIPER (Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover) mission. The vacated payload spot will now host the FLIP (FLEX Lunar Innovation Platform) lunar rover from Astrolab. Planned orbit: Lunar Orbit. Status: To Be Determined. Current date is a placeholder or rough estimation based on unreliable or interpreted sources. The published time can still slip. Rockets wait for weather, boats, and the range.
Story written from the public listing. A model key can be added later; none is required.
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. The clock is still loose, so daylight is a guess.
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.
Questions stay with this launch. If a model key is configured on the server, the answer is cached. Without a key, the reply is taken straight from the record.
Put it on a calendar
So the slip still finds you
A single launch can be saved now. The subscribe feed, on the launches page, is the one that moves when a rocket slips. Calendar alarms do not know about bedtime quiet hours.
