SpaceX's COTS Demo Flight 1, the second Falcon 9 launch, sent an uncrewed Dragon capsule to orbit and back -- the first time a commercially built and operated spacecraft was recovered from orbit -- splashing down in the Pacific under NASA's COTS program.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 8.8 T (est.)
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 5 Falcon 9 v1.0 flights
- Date and time
- 8 December 2010, 15:43 UTC
- Rocket
- Falcon 9 v1.0
- Builder
- SpaceX
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Test Flight
- International designator
- 2010-066
- Launches in 2010
- 69th of 74
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