Launch Mission: JCSAT-16

Date: 8/14/2016

✅ Successful Launch

🧾 Mission Details

Flight #: 33

Details: First attempt to touch down from a ballistic trajectory using a single-engine landing burn. All previous landings from a ballistic trajectory had fired three engines on the landing-burn, which provided more braking force, but subjected the vehicle to greater structural stresses. The single-engine landing burn takes more time and fuel, but puts less stress on the vehicle.

🚀 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: B1026 — Reuse Count: 0View Core

🧑‍🚀 Payloads

Payload: JCSAT-16 — Mass: 4600 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