{"id":168687,"date":"2023-07-30T13:43:23","date_gmt":"2023-07-30T18:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/falcon-heavy-was-able-to-launch-the-worlds-largest-commercial-communications-satellite-jupiter-3-which-weighs-more-than-9000kg-and-is-the-size-of-a-minibus-into-orbit-on-the-second-attemp"},"modified":"2023-07-30T13:43:23","modified_gmt":"2023-07-30T18:43:23","slug":"falcon-heavy-was-able-to-launch-the-worlds-largest-commercial-communications-satellite-jupiter-3-which-weighs-more-than-9000kg-and-is-the-size-of-a-minibus-into-orbit-on-the-second-attemp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/falcon-heavy-was-able-to-launch-the-worlds-largest-commercial-communications-satellite-jupiter-3-which-weighs-more-than-9000kg-and-is-the-size-of-a-minibus-into-orbit-on-the-second-attemp","title":{"rendered":"Falcon Heavy was able to launch the world\u2019s largest commercial communications satellite, Jupiter 3, which weighs more than 9,000kg and is the size of a minibus, into orbit on the second attempt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/falcon-heavy-was-able-to-launch-the-worlds-largest-commercial-communications-satellite-jupiter-3-which-weighs-more-than-9000kg-and-is-the-size-of-a-minibus-into-orbit-on-the-second-attemp.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The day before, SpaceX was still able to send the Jupiter-3 satellite into space using a Falcon Heavy rocket. A few days earlier, the launch was cancelled for unknown reasons when the countdown stopped at the 65-second mark.<\/p>\n<p><b>Here\u2019s What We Know<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Falcon Heavy failed to set a world record for payload mass. The minibus-sized Jupiter 3 weighs more than 9,000kg, and Hughes Network Systems calls it the world\u2019s largest commercial communications satellite. But the record belongs to Europe\u2019s Ariane 5 rocket, which sent two satellites into orbit weighing a combined 10.2 tonnes. This happened two years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The day before, SpaceX was still able to send the Jupiter-3 satellite into space using a Falcon Heavy rocket. A few days earlier, the launch was cancelled for unknown reasons when the countdown stopped at the 65-second mark. Here\u2019s What We Know Falcon Heavy failed to set a world record for payload mass. The minibus-sized [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}