Falcon 9 launched 53 Starlink satellites from Kennedy Space Center's Pad 39A, marking the fifth flight for the booster, which landed on the droneship A Shortfall of Gravitas about nine minutes after liftoff.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 15.9 T
- Flight
- 98th
- of 638 Falcon 9 Block 5 flights
- Date and time
- 18 May 2022, 10:59 UTC
- Rocket
- Falcon 9 Block 5
- Builder
- SpaceX
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2022-053
- Launches in 2022
- 55th of 186
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