Falcon 9 launched 51 Starlink satellites from Vandenberg on SpaceX's first dedicated polar Starlink mission, deploying V1.5 satellites equipped with laser inter-satellite links. The booster, on its tenth flight, landed on a droneship in the Pacific.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- PO
- Polar orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 15.5 T
- Flight
- 68th
- of 638 Falcon 9 Block 5 flights
- Date and time
- 14 September 2021, 03:55 UTC
- Rocket
- Falcon 9 Block 5
- Builder
- SpaceX
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2021-082
- Launches in 2021
- 90th of 146
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