SpaceX’s seventeenth flight of 2018 was the first launch of the Saocom Earth observation satellite constellation of the Argentine Space Agency CONAE. The second launch of Saocom 1B will happen in 2019. This flight marked the first RTLS launch out of Vandenberg, with a landing on the concrete pad at SLC-4W, very close to the launch pad.
Monday 8th October 2018 at 02:22 UTC
VAFB SLC 4E
Falcon 9
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Landing Zone 4
Units: kg
CONAE
INVAP
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