Falcon 9 launched Argentina's SAOCOM 1B radar Earth-observation satellite along with rideshare payloads GNOMES-1 and Tyvak-0172, using the southern polar corridor from Cape Canaveral for the first time since 1969. The four-time-flown booster landed at Landing Zone 1.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.1 T
- Flight
- 35th
- of 638 Falcon 9 Block 5 flights
- Date and time
- 30 August 2020, 23:18 UTC
- Rocket
- Falcon 9 Block 5
- Builder
- SpaceX
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2020-059
- Launches in 2020
- 65th of 114
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