ViaSat-3 Americas

ViaSat-3 Americas suffered an antenna deployment failure shortly after reaching orbit, reducing its usable capacity to less than 10% of planned levels and triggering a $421 million insurance claim - one of the largest ever filed for a satellite loss. Despite the damage, Viasat placed the satellite into limited commercial service for aviation customers in North America in August 2024.

Aurora 4A (Arcturus), flying as a co-passenger, was Astranis Space Technologies's first commercial satellite - a small MicroGEO spacecraft leased to Pacific Dataport to deliver broadband internet to remote communities in Alaska. It suffered a solar array drive malfunction after launch, leaving it operational for only six to twelve hours per day.

First Falcon Heavy mission to expend all three booster cores, delivering the payloads directly into near-geostationary orbit.