Falcon 9 launched SiriusXM's SXM-8 broadcast satellite, a roughly 7-tonne Maxar-built spacecraft and the second of a two-satellite order after SXM-7's 2020 payload failure, with the booster landing on a droneship.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 7 T (est.)
- Flight
- 64th
- of 638 Falcon 9 Block 5 flights
- Date and time
- 6 June 2021, 04:26 UTC
- Rocket
- Falcon 9 Block 5
- Builder
- SpaceX
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2021-049
- Launches in 2021
- 51st of 146
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