Delivered Intelsat 40e, a Maxar-built high-throughput communications satellite for North America, to geostationary transfer orbit. It hosted NASA's TEMPO air-pollution monitoring instrument; booster B1076 flew a fourth time and landed on the droneship A Shortfall of Gravitas.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.3 T
- Flight
- 159th
- of 638 Falcon 9 Block 5 flights
- Date and time
- 7 April 2023, 04:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Falcon 9 Block 5
- Builder
- SpaceX
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2023-052
- Launches in 2023
- 57th of 223
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