Launched the U.S. Space Force's classified X-37B spaceplane on mission OTV-7 (USSF-52), its seventh flight and first atop a Falcon Heavy, sending the reusable vehicle to a high elliptical orbit for classified test and experimentation objectives. Both side boosters returned to land at Cape Canaveral.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 5 T (est.)
- Flight
- 9th
- of 14 Falcon Heavy flights
- Date and time
- 29 December 2023, 01:07 UTC
- Rocket
- Falcon Heavy
- Builder
- SpaceX
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 2023-210
- Launches in 2023
- 221st of 223
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