Launched the Thuraya 4-NGS mobile communications satellite for UAE-based Space42 to geosynchronous transfer orbit, SpaceX's first orbital mission of 2025; the booster completed its 20th flight and landed on the droneship A Shortfall of Gravitas.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 5 T
- Flight
- 361st
- of 638 Falcon 9 Block 5 flights
- Date and time
- 4 January 2025, 01:27 UTC
- Rocket
- Falcon 9 Block 5
- Builder
- SpaceX
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2025-001
- Launches in 2025
- 1st of 329
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