Falcon 9 launched Italy's COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation FM2 (CSG-2) radar Earth-observation satellite from Cape Canaveral after multiple weather and range delays, with the booster landing back at the Cape.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.2 T
- Flight
- 81st
- of 638 Falcon 9 Block 5 flights
- Date and time
- 31 January 2022, 23:11 UTC
- Rocket
- Falcon 9 Block 5
- Builder
- SpaceX
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 2022-008
- Launches in 2022
- 8th of 186
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