Launched the Intelsat 35e high-throughput communications satellite, built by Boeing on the 702MP bus, into geostationary transfer orbit from KSC's LC-39A. The booster flew in expendable mode with no first-stage recovery attempt due to the satellite's high mass.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.8 T
- Flight
- 18th
- of 24 Falcon 9 Full Thrust flights
- Date and time
- 5 July 2017, 23:38 UTC
- Rocket
- Falcon 9 Full Thrust
- Builder
- SpaceX
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2017-041
- Launches in 2017
- 44th of 90
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