SpaceX launched GPS III SV01, nicknamed 'Vespucci,' the first of a new generation of GPS navigation satellites, on an expendable Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral in the first US national-security launch on a newly certified rocket in 20 years.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- MEO
- Medium Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4.4 T
- Flight
- 10th
- of 638 Falcon 9 Block 5 flights
- Date and time
- 23 December 2018, 13:51 UTC
- Rocket
- Falcon 9 Block 5
- Builder
- SpaceX
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Navigation
- International designator
- 2018-109
- Launches in 2018
- 111th of 114
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