Falcon 9 deployed 60 Starlink satellites (v1.0 L18) into low Earth orbit from Cape Canaveral. The booster, flying its sixth mission, was lost during droneship landing after an apparent entry-burn anomaly.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 16 T
- Flight
- 51st
- of 638 Falcon 9 Block 5 flights
- Date and time
- 16 February 2021, 03:59 UTC
- Rocket
- Falcon 9 Block 5
- Builder
- SpaceX
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2021-012
- Launches in 2021
- 13th of 146
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