A Falcon 9 launched two Galileo satellites (FOC FM25 and FM27) for Europe's Galileo navigation constellation into medium Earth orbit from Kennedy Space Center. The performance required to reach MEO meant the booster, B1060 on its final flight, was expended rather than recovered.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- MEO
- Medium Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.5 T
- Flight
- 270th
- of 638 Falcon 9 Block 5 flights
- Date and time
- 28 April 2024, 00:34 UTC
- Rocket
- Falcon 9 Block 5
- Builder
- SpaceX
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Payload
- Navigation
- International designator
- 2024-079
- Launches in 2024
- 81st of 263
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