Falcon 9 launched Sky Perfect JSAT's JCSAT-14 communications satellite to geostationary transfer orbit to replace the aging JCSAT-2A over Asia-Pacific. The first stage landed on the drone ship Of Course I Still Love You, SpaceX's first booster recovery after a GTO-class mission.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4.7 T
- Flight
- 4th
- of 24 Falcon 9 Full Thrust flights
- Date and time
- 6 May 2016, 05:21 UTC
- Rocket
- Falcon 9 Full Thrust
- Builder
- SpaceX
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2016-028
- Launches in 2016
- 28th of 85
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