SpaceX's Falcon 9 launched the CRS-16 Dragon cargo mission to the ISS from Cape Canaveral, carrying over 2,570 kg of supplies including the GEDI lidar instrument and Robotic Refueling Mission 3. The first stage lost control during landing but soft-landed intact near LZ-1.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 12.9 T (est.)
- Flight
- 9th
- of 638 Falcon 9 Block 5 flights
- Date and time
- 5 December 2018, 18:16 UTC
- Rocket
- Falcon 9 Block 5
- Builder
- SpaceX
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Resupply
- International designator
- 2018-101
- Launches in 2018
- 103rd of 114
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