Falcon 9 launched the GPS III SV03 "Columbus" navigation satellite for the U.S. Space Force from Cape Canaveral, with the booster landing on the droneship Just Read the Instructions; GPS III satellites offer up to triple the accuracy and eight times the anti-jamming resistance of earlier GPS blocks.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- MEO
- Medium Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4.4 T
- Flight
- 31st
- of 638 Falcon 9 Block 5 flights
- Date and time
- 30 June 2020, 20:10 UTC
- Rocket
- Falcon 9 Block 5
- Builder
- SpaceX
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Navigation
- International designator
- 2020-041
- Launches in 2020
- 45th of 114
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