SpaceX launched the Boeing-built JCSAT-18/Kacific-1 communications satellite, jointly owned by Sky Perfect JSAT and Kacific Broadband Satellites, into geostationary transfer orbit from Cape Canaveral; the first stage landed on the droneship Of Course I Still Love You on its third flight.
- Outcome
- Success
- Payload to orbit
- 6.8 T
- Flight
- 21st
- of 638 Falcon 9 Block 5 flights
- Date and time
- 17 December 2019, 00:10 UTC
- Rocket
- Falcon 9 Block 5
- Builder
- SpaceX
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2019-091
- Launches in 2019
- 96th of 102
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