Launch Mission: ABS-2A / Eutelsat 117W B

Date: 6/15/2016

✅ Successful Launch

🧾 Mission Details

Flight #: 31

Details: One year after pioneering this technique on flight 16, Falcon again launched two Boeing 702SP gridded ion thruster satellites in a dual-stack configuration, with the two customers sharing the rocket and mission costs. First stage landing attempt on drone ship failed on landing due to low thrust on one of the three landing engines.

🚀 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: B1024 — Reuse Count: 0View Core

🧑‍🚀 Payloads

Payload: ABS-2A — Mass: 1800 kgView Payload
Payload: Eutelsat 117 West B — Mass: 1800 kgView Payload

🚢 Ships Involved

Name: Elsbeth III — Type: TugView Ship
Name: GO Quest — Type: CargoView Ship
Name: Megan — Type: CargoView Ship
Name: Of Course I Still Love You — Type: BargeView Ship