Acquisition of signal from Europa Clipper confirmed!
Next up, Mars gravity assist in 2025 February, Earth gravity assist in 2026 December, and Jupiter orbit insertion in 2030 April.
Acquisition of signal from Europa Clipper confirmed!
Next up, Mars gravity assist in 2025 February, Earth gravity assist in 2026 December, and Jupiter orbit insertion in 2030 April.
Europa Clipper separation confirmed!
Now waiting for acquisition of signal.
M-vac engine cutoff. Nominal orbit insertion.
Spacecraft separation scheduled for T+1:02:12.
M-vac ignition for SES-2!
SECO, nominal orbital insertion.
SES-2 scheduled for T+47 minutes.
Mission Control Audio: “Stage 2 FTS has safed.”
Mission Control Audio: “Stage 2 is in terminal guidance.”
Mission Control Audio: Center core FTS has safed.
MECO, stage separation, M-vac ignition, and fairing separation.
Mission Control Audio: NY, PY FTS has safed.
BECO! Farewell B1064 and B1065!
Mission Control Audio: “M-vac is chilling.”
Max-Q!
Liftoff!
Stage 2 temperature anomaly has been resolved, they are go for launch.
Falcon Heavy is in Startup.
Mission Control Audio: “Center core LOX load complete.”
Teams are monitoring a temperature anomaly on Stage 2, but they are otherwise go for launch.
Mission Control Audio: “Stage 2 LOX load complete.”
Mission Control Audio: “NY booster LOX load complete.”
Mission Control Audio: “PY booster LOX load complete.”
Strongback retract has started.
Mission Control Audio: “Center core RP-1 load complete.”
Edit: PY and NY RP-1 load also complete.
Propellant load is underway: https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1845848177037152359
https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1845573173586346482
Falcon Heavy is vertical at pad 39A in Florida ahead of tomorrow’s launch of @NASA’s Europa Clipper
Embedded videos:
https://x.com/SpaceOffshore/status/1845185100398374960
SpaceX’s fairing recovery ship, GO Cosmos, is an incredible 2070 km (1287 miles) downrange from the launch pad to recover the fairing halves for the Europa Clipper mission.
Image
https://x.com/SpaceOffshore/status/1845185490594447471
(This is a downrange distance record for fairing recovery by ~110 km) The previous record was ViaSat-3.1 at 1955 km.
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