Launched Argentina's SAOCOM 1A radar earth-observation satellite, built to monitor soil moisture and detect floods, oil spills, and wildfires, from Vandenberg into a polar orbit. The first stage completed SpaceX's first-ever landing on the California coast.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3 T
- Flight
- 6th
- of 638 Falcon 9 Block 5 flights
- Date and time
- 8 October 2018, 02:21 UTC
- Rocket
- Falcon 9 Block 5
- Builder
- SpaceX
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 2018-076
- Launches in 2018
- 76th of 114
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