Falcon 9 launched Taiwan's Formosat-5 Earth-observation satellite from Vandenberg into sun-synchronous orbit. Built solely by Taiwan's National Space Organization, it returns high-resolution imagery and studies the ionosphere; the booster landed on the droneship Just Read the Instructions.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 525 kg
- Flight
- 19th
- of 24 Falcon 9 Full Thrust flights
- Date and time
- 24 August 2017, 18:51 UTC
- Rocket
- Falcon 9 Full Thrust
- Builder
- SpaceX
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 2017-049
- Launches in 2017
- 52nd of 90
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