Carried three AST SpaceMobile BlueBird direct-to-cell communications satellites to low Earth orbit from Cape Canaveral, deploying them in stages beginning about 54 minutes after liftoff. The first-stage booster landed on a droneship in the Atlantic roughly 8.5 minutes into flight.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 17.6 T (est.)
- Flight
- 616th
- of 638 Falcon 9 Block 5 flights
- Date and time
- 5 August 2026, 07:49 UTC
- Rocket
- Falcon 9 Block 5
- Builder
- SpaceX
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2026-179
- Launches in 2026
- 187th of 243
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