Launched six Orbcomm OG2 second-generation data-relay satellites from Cape Canaveral, returning Falcon 9 to flight after a prior scrub. The spent first stage also performed a supersonic reentry burn and controlled ocean touchdown test ahead of future landing attempts.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.7 T
- Flight
- 5th
- of 15 Falcon 9 v1.1 flights
- Date and time
- 14 July 2014, 15:15 UTC
- Rocket
- Falcon 9 v1.1
- Builder
- SpaceX
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2014-040
- Launches in 2014
- 41st of 92
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