ABOUT THE HERITAGE FLIGHT
For someone who always loved space, longed to journey among the stars, or simply found peace and tranquility in the evening sky, orbiting Earth aboard a Celestis spacecraft is a truly befitting way to celebrate and remember a life. Families from around the world traveled to Florida and viewed the launch, which occurred from NASA's Kennedy Space Center, to witness the ultimate mission of purpose – the Celestis Heritage Flight.
June 25th 2019
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The Falcon Heavy lifted off from Kennedy Space Centre’s Launch Complex 39A at 02:30 a.m. 25th June 2019, after an unusually long four-hour launch window. Forecasts were favourable for the launch, with a 70 percent chance of acceptable weather, the weather turned out to be perfect.
The rocket is flying a mission designated Space Test Program 2 (STP-2) for the Air Force. Its payload includes two dozen satellites, primarily technology demonstrations for the Air Force, NASA, NOAA and other customers including several High School Projects, with a total mass, including various adapters, of 3,700 kilograms.
The mission is rather complex. The Falcon Heavy’s second stage will make four burns to place spacecraft into three different orbits. The first spacecraft will be released from the upper stage less than 13 minutes after liftoff, but the last one won’t be deployed until more than three and a half hours after liftoff. The General Atomics Test bed Satellite with the cremated remains of 152 loved ones on board left the spacecraft at 1 hour 23 minutes into its launch.
