| 31 |  | ABS-2A / Eutelsat 117W B | Wed Jun 15 2016 | Successful 🚀 | 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. | Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Space Launch Complex 40 | 🔍 Details |
| 32 |  | CRS-9 | Mon Jul 18 2016 | Successful 🚀 | Among other cargo, an International Docking Adapter (IDA-2) was carried to the ISS. This mission had a successful first-stage landing at Cape Canaveral.*Including the reusable Dragon Capsule, total payload to orbit was 6457 kg. | Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Space Launch Complex 40 | 🔍 Details |
| 33 |  | JCSAT-16 | Sun Aug 14 2016 | Successful 🚀 | 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. | Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Space Launch Complex 40 | 🔍 Details |
| 34 |  | Amos-6 | Thu Sep 01 2016 | Failed ❌ | The rocket and Amos-6 payload were lost in a launch pad explosion on September 1, 2016 during propellant fill prior to a static fire test. The pad was clear of personnel and there were no injuries. | Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Space Launch Complex 40 | 🔍 Details |
| 35 |  | Iridium NEXT Mission 1 | Sat Jan 14 2017 | Successful 🚀 | Return-to-flight mission after the loss of Amos-6 in September 2016. Iridium NEXT will replace the original Iridium constellation, launched in the late 1990s. Each Falcon mission will carry 10 satellites, with a goal to complete deployment of the 66 plus 9 spare satellite constellation by mid 2018. The first two Iridium qualification units were supposed to ride a Dnepr rocket in April 2016 but were delayed, so Iridium decided to qualify the first batch of 10 satellites instead. | Vandenberg Space Force Base Space Launch Complex 4E | 🔍 Details |
| 36 |  | CRS-10 | Sun Feb 19 2017 | Successful 🚀 | First Falcon 9 flight from the historic LC-39A launchpad at Kennedy Space Center, carrying supplies and materials to support dozens of science and research investigations scheduled during ISS Expeditions 50 and 51. The first stage returned to launch site and landed at LZ-1. | Kennedy Space Center Historic Launch Complex 39A | 🔍 Details |
| 37 |  | EchoStar 23 | Thu Mar 16 2017 | Successful 🚀 | Communications satellite for EchoStar Corp. EchoStar XXIII, based on a spare platform from the cancelled CMBStar 1 satellite program, will provide direct-to-home television broadcast services over Brazil. There was no attempt at a first-stage recovery so this rocket did not have landing legs or grid fins. | Kennedy Space Center Historic Launch Complex 39A | 🔍 Details |
| 38 |  | SES-10 | Thu Mar 30 2017 | Successful 🚀 | First payload to fly on a reused first stage, B1021, previously launched with CRS-8, which also landed a second time. In what is also a first, the payload fairing remained intact after a successful splashdown achieved with thrusters and a steerable parachute. | Kennedy Space Center Historic Launch Complex 39A | 🔍 Details |
| 39 |  | NROL-76 | Mon May 01 2017 | Successful 🚀 | First launch under SpaceX's certification for national security space missions, which allows SpaceX to contract launch services for classified payloads. Second-stage speed and altitude telemetry were omitted from the launch webcast, which displayed first-stage telemetry instead, with continuous tracking of the booster from liftoff to landing for the first time. | Kennedy Space Center Historic Launch Complex 39A | 🔍 Details |
| 40 |  | Inmarsat-5 F4 | Mon May 15 2017 | Successful 🚀 | At 6,070 kg this was the heaviest payload launched to GTO by a Falcon 9 rocket. The launch was originally scheduled for the Falcon Heavy, but performance improvements allowed the mission to be carried out by an expendable Falcon 9 instead. | Kennedy Space Center Historic Launch Complex 39A | 🔍 Details |