Falcon 9 delivered the GPS III SV05 satellite for the U.S. Space Force, the 24th M-Code-enabled GPS spacecraft on orbit, marking the first reused booster flown on a National Security Space Launch mission, then landed at sea.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- MEO
- Medium Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4.4 T
- Flight
- 65th
- of 638 Falcon 9 Block 5 flights
- Date and time
- 17 June 2021, 16:09 UTC
- Rocket
- Falcon 9 Block 5
- Builder
- SpaceX
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Navigation
- International designator
- 2021-054
- Launches in 2021
- 57th of 146
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