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SES-10

Success
MAR 30201722:27:00 UTC

First reflight of an orbital-class first stage. Booster B1021 (previously CRS-8) recovered for a second time.

launched fromLC-39AKennedy

aboardFalcon 9 Full ThrustF9-032intoGSO

Notes from the launch

Eleven months before SES-10, booster B1021 had carried a Dragon capsule on the CRS-8 resupply mission and landed on a drone ship in the Atlantic.

It was then partially disassembled, shipped to Hawthorne for refurbishment, test-fired at McGregor, Texas on 25 January 2017, and returned to LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center. On 30 March 2017, it flew again — carrying the 5,282 kg SES-10 communications satellite toward geostationary orbit.

No orbital-class first stage had ever done that before.

B1021 landed on the drone ship Of Course I Still Love You for the second time, becoming the first rocket stage to complete two orbital missions and two recoveries. The payload fairing also survived, splashing down intact. SES-10 reached its target orbit.

Booster

B1021.2

Landed on drone ship · OCISLY

Payload

SES-10

Communications