Delivered 11 Orbcomm OG2 satellites to low Earth orbit on the debut flight of the upgraded Falcon 9 Full Thrust. The first stage returned to Landing Zone 1 near Cape Canaveral, the first successful landing of an orbital rocket's first stage.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.6 T
- Flight
- 1st
- of 24 Falcon 9 Full Thrust flights
- Date and time
- 22 December 2015, 01:29 UTC
- Rocket
- Falcon 9 Full Thrust
- Builder
- SpaceX
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2015-081
- Launches in 2015
- 85th of 87
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