Falcon 9 launched the Space Systems Loral-built JCSAT-16 communications satellite for SKY Perfect JSAT to geostationary transfer orbit as an in-orbit Ku/Ka-band backup satellite. The first stage landed on the droneship Of Course I Still Love You.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4.6 T (est.)
- Flight
- 8th
- of 24 Falcon 9 Full Thrust flights
- Date and time
- 14 August 2016, 05:26 UTC
- Rocket
- Falcon 9 Full Thrust
- Builder
- SpaceX
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2016-050
- Launches in 2016
- 50th of 85
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