SpaceX F9 - OneWeb Flight #17 - SLC-40

Launch Date: March 9
Launch Window: 2:13pm EST (11:13am PST, 19:13 UTC)
Launch site: SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida
Booster Recovery: RTLS - LZ-1
Booster Type: B1062.13
Fairings: Reused
Orbit: LEO (Polar)
Mass: 40 satellites (150 kg each)
Yearly Launch Number: 16

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch 40 satellites into orbit for OneWeb, which is developing and deploying a constellation of hundreds of satellites in low Earth orbit for low-latency broadband communications. This will be the third launch of OneWeb satellites with SpaceX. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster will return to Landing Zone 1 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

OneWeb - Wikipedia​

 

[808?]

 

[Grendal]

Booster switch

 

[Grendal]

Beautiful launch on a clear day out of Florida. Great video of the RTLS. Booster B1062 should be good for a try at a 14th launch in a month or two.

The orbital speed was about 1000 km/h more than usual on SECO-1.

 

[Electroman]

That is why I think 2nd stage burn lasted a minute or more than usual. It usually shuts down exactly at the same instant when first stage touches down. But this time it went longer

 

[Grendal]

Lots of good visuals of the satellite deployments.

Edit: All satellites deployed successfully.

 

[ecarfan]

Wow, so cool to see the major course correction by the booster during the landing burn, from two POVs!