Falcon 9 launched SiriusXM's SXM-7 broadcasting satellite, a large digital audio radio satellite, from Cape Canaveral on a booster flying its seventh mission. The first stage landed on the droneship Just Read the Instructions in the Atlantic.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 7 T (est.)
- Flight
- 45th
- of 638 Falcon 9 Block 5 flights
- Date and time
- 13 December 2020, 17:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Falcon 9 Block 5
- Builder
- SpaceX
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2020-096
- Launches in 2020
- 105th of 114
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