Falcon 9 launched the Airbus-built Turksat 5A communications satellite into a supersynchronous transfer orbit from Cape Canaveral; the satellite carries 42 Ku-band transponders to serve Turkey, the Middle East, Europe and North Africa from 31°E.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.5 T
- Flight
- 47th
- of 638 Falcon 9 Block 5 flights
- Date and time
- 8 January 2021, 02:15 UTC
- Rocket
- Falcon 9 Block 5
- Builder
- SpaceX
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2021-001
- Launches in 2021
- 1st of 146
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