SpaceX's sixth Starlink mission, deploying 60 satellites from Kennedy Space Center on a booster making its fifth flight. One of nine first-stage engines shut down early after unpurged isopropyl alcohol ignited, but satellites still reached orbit; the droneship landing attempt failed.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 16 T
- Flight
- 26th
- of 638 Falcon 9 Block 5 flights
- Date and time
- 18 March 2020, 12:16 UTC
- Rocket
- Falcon 9 Block 5
- Builder
- SpaceX
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2020-019
- Launches in 2020
- 21st of 114
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