Falcon 9 v1.1 launched the SES-8 communications satellite to a supersynchronous transfer orbit, SpaceX's first flight to GTO and its first successful commercial geostationary satellite delivery, serving the Asia-Pacific market for operator SES.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.1 T
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 15 Falcon 9 v1.1 flights
- Date and time
- 3 December 2013, 22:41 UTC
- Rocket
- Falcon 9 v1.1
- Builder
- SpaceX
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2013-071
- Launches in 2013
- 73rd of 81
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