Launch Mission: JCSAT-2B

Date: 5/6/2016

✅ Successful Launch

🧾 Mission Details

Flight #: 29

Details: Launched the JCSAT 14 communications satellite for Tokyo-based SKY Perfect JSAT Corp. JCSAT 14 will support data networks, television broadcasters and mobile communications users in Japan, East Asia, Russia, Oceania, Hawaii and other Pacific islands. This was the first time a booster successfully landed after a GTO mission.

🚀 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: B1022 — Reuse Count: 0View Core

🧑‍🚀 Payloads

Payload: JCSAT-2B — Mass: 4696 kgView Payload

🚢 Ships Involved

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