Falcon 9 launched the Thaicom 8 communications satellite to geostationary transfer orbit for Thailand's Thaicom, providing Ku-band broadcast capacity over Southeast Asia, India and Africa. The first stage landed successfully on the droneship Of Course I Still Love You.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.1 T
- Flight
- 5th
- of 24 Falcon 9 Full Thrust flights
- Date and time
- 27 May 2016, 21:39 UTC
- Rocket
- Falcon 9 Full Thrust
- Builder
- SpaceX
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2016-031
- Launches in 2016
- 31st of 85
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