Launched the Telstar 18 VANTAGE high-throughput communications satellite for Telesat, providing C-band coverage over Asia and Ku-band spot beams over Indonesia and Malaysia, into geostationary transfer orbit; the booster landed on the droneship Of Course I Still Love You.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 7.1 T
- Flight
- 5th
- of 638 Falcon 9 Block 5 flights
- Date and time
- 10 September 2018, 04:45 UTC
- Rocket
- Falcon 9 Block 5
- Builder
- SpaceX
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2018-069
- Launches in 2018
- 69th of 114
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