Falcon 9 launched Inmarsat-5 F4, a 6,100 kg Ka-band broadband satellite, from Pad 39A to GTO. At the time it was the heaviest payload SpaceX had sent toward geostationary orbit, so the booster was expended with no landing attempt.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.1 T
- Flight
- 14th
- of 24 Falcon 9 Full Thrust flights
- Date and time
- 15 May 2017, 23:21 UTC
- Rocket
- Falcon 9 Full Thrust
- Builder
- SpaceX
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2017-025
- Launches in 2017
- 26th of 90
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