Launched the Airbus-built Arabsat BADR-8 (Arabsat-7B) communications satellite toward geostationary transfer orbit to serve the 26 degrees east slot. The booster completed its 14th flight and landed on the droneship Just Read the Instructions.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4.5 T (est.)
- Flight
- 170th
- of 638 Falcon 9 Block 5 flights
- Date and time
- 27 May 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
- 2023-075
- Launches in 2023
- 81st of 223
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