Launched the U.S. Space Force's GPS III SV-08 navigation satellite, a Lockheed Martin-built spacecraft with jam-resistant M-code capability, toward medium Earth orbit from Cape Canaveral after a record three-month rapid-turnaround campaign.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- MEO
- Medium Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4 T
- Flight
- 425th
- of 638 Falcon 9 Block 5 flights
- Date and time
- 30 May 2025, 17:37 UTC
- Rocket
- Falcon 9 Block 5
- Builder
- SpaceX
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Navigation
- International designator
- 2025-116
- Launches in 2025
- 122nd of 329
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