SpaceX's first launch of 2024 carried 21 Starlink satellites (Group 7-9) from Vandenberg, including the first six equipped with Direct to Cell capability for connecting standard smartphones; the booster landed on a droneship in the Pacific.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 15.8 T
- Flight
- 229th
- of 638 Falcon 9 Block 5 flights
- Date and time
- 3 January 2024, 03:44 UTC
- Rocket
- Falcon 9 Block 5
- Builder
- SpaceX
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2024-002
- Launches in 2024
- 2nd of 263
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