Launch Mission: DSCOVR

Date: 2/11/2015

✅ Successful Launch

🧾 Mission Details

Flight #: 20

Details: First launch under USAF's OSP 3 launch contract. First SpaceX launch to put a satellite to an orbit with an orbital altitude many times the distance to the Moon: Sun-Earth libration point L1. The first stage made a test flight descent to an over-ocean landing within 10 m (33 ft) of its intended target.

🚀 Rocket Details

Name: Falcon 9

Type: rocket

📍 Launchpad Details

Name: Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Space Launch Complex 40

Location: Cape Canaveral, Florida

Launchpad Details Page

🛰️ Cores

Core Serial: B1013 — Reuse Count: 0View Core

🧑‍🚀 Payloads

Payload: DSCOVR — Mass: 570 kgView Payload

🚢 Ships Involved

Name: Elsbeth III — Type: TugView Ship
Name: GO Quest — Type: CargoView Ship
Name: Megan — Type: CargoView Ship