Launch Mission: GPS III SV01

🧾 Mission Details

Flight #: 73

Details: SpaceX's twenty-first flight of 2018 launched the first of the new GPS III satellites (Block IIIA) for the United States Air Force and was SpaceX's first EELV mission. The spacecraft was delivered to a MEO transfer orbit from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. This mission was the first to fly with the redesigned COPV on the first stage (B1054) as well as the second. The booster was expended.

🚀 Rocket Details

Name: Falcon 9

Type: rocket

📍 Launchpad Details

Name: Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Space Launch Complex 40

Location: Cape Canaveral, Florida

🛰️ Cores

• Core Serial: B1054 — Reuse Count: 0View Core

🧑‍🚀 Payloads

• Payload: GPS III SV01 — Mass: 4400 kgView Payload

🚢 Ships Involved

No ships involved.

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