Launch Mission: Boeing X-37B OTV-5

Date: 9/7/2017

✅ Successful Launch

🧾 Mission Details

Flight #: 47

Details: Notable because Boeing is the primary contractor of the X-37B, which has until now been launched by ULA, a SpaceX competitor and Boeing partnership. Second flight of the Falcon 9 Block 4 upgrade.

🚀 Rocket Details

Name: Falcon 9

Type: rocket

📍 Launchpad Details

Name: Kennedy Space Center Historic Launch Complex 39A

Location: Cape Canaveral, Florida

Launchpad Details Page

🛰️ Cores

Core Serial: B1040 — Reuse Count: 1View Core

🧑‍🚀 Payloads

Payload: X-37B OTV-5 — Mass: 4990 kgView Payload

🚢 Ships Involved

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