Falcon 9 launched the US Air Force's X-37B spaceplane on its classified OTV-5 mission from KSC pad 39A, the vehicle's first flight on a Falcon 9 rather than an Atlas V. It flew a higher-inclination orbit and deployed several cubesats; the booster landed at Landing Zone 1.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 5 T (est.)
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 12 Falcon 9 Block 4 flights
- Date and time
- 7 September 2017, 14:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Falcon 9 Block 4
- Builder
- SpaceX
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 2017-052
- Launches in 2017
- 55th of 90
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