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Falcon Heavy | ViaSat-3 F3 (ViaSat-3 Asia-Pacific)

Visibility uncertain

Success

Past NET: Past NET
Liftoff: 11:13 AM; ADT · Apr 29, 2026
Bearing: 259°; West

Mission

The ViaSat-3 is a series of three Ka-band satellites is expected to provide vastly superior capabilities in terms of service speed and flexibility for a satellite platform. Each ViaSat-3 class satellite is expected to deliver more than 1-Terabit per second of network capacity, and to leverage high levels of flexibility to dynamically direct capacity to where customers are located.

Target orbit: Geostationary Transfer Orbit

How to watch from Bermuda

Visibility from Bermuda is uncertain — we lack a confident trajectory match for this mission.

Face west (258.9865840268977°) and sweep along the trajectory. Start scanning the sky about six minutes after liftoff.

Sweep order (approximate)

01west
02overhead
03east

You are standing at the amber dot in the middle. The solid cyan arrow is where to aim your eyes — roughly where the rocket will appear highest in the sky. The dotted cyan arc traces the rocket's motion across the sky, with the arrow showing which way it travels.

Look 259° WestThe rocket rises low in the SW, arcs across the sky toward W, and fades in the WNW when engines cut out.

Lighting note

Daylight viewing is challenging — the plume gets washed out. Look for a bright moving dot against the sky, and use binoculars if you have them.

Bermuda weather

Checking conditions…

Falcon Heavy mission profile

Typical stage events

Illustrative timings from published Falcon Heavy press kits. Actual events vary by mission profile, payload, and recovery method. Telemetry-accurate per-mission events coming in v1.x.

Bermuda viewing window

Appears above horizon

11:20 AM ADT

T+7:15

Fades (engine cutoff)

11:21 AM ADT

T+8:32

Visible for

~1 min 17 sec

The rocket rises low in the SW, arcs across the sky toward W, and fades in the WNW when engines cut out. Under clear skies and with minimal light pollution, the rocket plume is typically visible as a slow-moving bright star between these times.

Times assume on-time liftoff. Add ~30–90 sec uncertainty for typical per-mission timing variance; launch delays move the whole window.

T+0Liftoff
T+1:07Max-Q
T+2:29Side boosters MECO
T+2:32Side-booster separation
T+2:48Center-core MECO
T+2:52Center-core separation
T+3:17Fairing jettison
T+8:32Side-booster RTLS landing (approx.)

Launch details

Vehicle: Falcon Heavy
Pad: Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA, USA
Pad coordinates: 28.60822681, -80.60428186
Mission type: Geostationary Transfer Orbit
Launch window: 11:13 AM → 12:38 PM
Lighting at NET: Daylight

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