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Falcon 9 v1.2
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First Launch: 2015-12-22. Last Launch: 2017-03-30. Number: 12 .

• Orbcomm FM105 - . Nation: USA. Class: Communications. Type: Communications satellite. Spacecraft: SN-100. USAF Sat Cat: 41181 . COSPAR: 2015-081C. Apogee: 657 km (408 mi). Perigee: 613 km (380 mi). Inclination: 47.00 deg.

• Orbcomm FM108 - . Nation: USA. Class: Communications. Type: Communications satellite. Spacecraft: SN-100. USAF Sat Cat: 41187 . COSPAR: 2015-081J. Apogee: 658 km (408 mi). Perigee: 614 km (381 mi). Inclination: 47.00 deg.

• Orbcomm FM110 - . Nation: USA. Class: Communications. Type: Communications satellite. Spacecraft: SN-100. USAF Sat Cat: 41182 . COSPAR: 2015-081D. Apogee: 657 km (408 mi). Perigee: 614 km (381 mi). Inclination: 47.00 deg.

• Orbcomm FM112 - . Nation: USA. Class: Communications. Type: Communications satellite. Spacecraft: SN-100. USAF Sat Cat: 41184 . COSPAR: 2015-081F. Apogee: 657 km (408 mi). Perigee: 614 km (381 mi). Inclination: 47.00 deg.

• Orbcomm FM113 - . Nation: USA. Class: Communications. Type: Communications satellite. Spacecraft: SN-100. USAF Sat Cat: 41185 . COSPAR: 2015-081G. Apogee: 657 km (408 mi). Perigee: 613 km (380 mi). Inclination: 47.00 deg.

• Orbcomm FM114 - . Nation: USA. Class: Communications. Type: Communications satellite. Spacecraft: SN-100. USAF Sat Cat: 41179 . COSPAR: 2015-081A. Apogee: 655 km (406 mi). Perigee: 613 km (380 mi). Inclination: 47.00 deg.

  SpaceX launched their first Falcon 9 since the CRS-7 failure. Core F9-021 was also the first 'full thrust' Falcon 9 with improved performance. The primary payload was a cluster of Orbcomm OG2 comm satellites. The 11 OG2s and one non-separating mass simulator were mounted on the circumference of a dispenser consisting of three ESPA rings attached to the second stage. After the satellites were deployed, the second stage was deorbited. The first stage shut down at an altitude of around 80 km and a velocity of 1.65 km/s (Earth-relative), just before stages 1 and 2 separated. The stage reached an apogee of around 200 km before beginning a boostback burn to kill its eastward velocity and send it back towards Florida. Following a third reentry burn the stage landed back at Cape Canaveral's Landing Zone 1 (former pad 13). The fully controlled vertical landing came at 0139 UTC Dec 22.

• Orbcomm FM115 - . Nation: USA. Class: Communications. Type: Communications satellite. Spacecraft: SN-100. USAF Sat Cat: 41186 . COSPAR: 2015-081H. Apogee: 654 km (406 mi). Perigee: 612 km (380 mi). Inclination: 47.00 deg.

• Orbcomm FM116 - . Nation: USA. Class: Communications. Type: Communications satellite. Spacecraft: SN-100. USAF Sat Cat: 41189 . COSPAR: 2015-081L. Apogee: 656 km (407 mi). Perigee: 613 km (380 mi). Inclination: 47.00 deg.

• Orbcomm FM117 - . Nation: USA. Class: Communications. Type: Communications satellite. Spacecraft: SN-100. USAF Sat Cat: 41188 . COSPAR: 2015-081K. Apogee: 656 km (407 mi). Perigee: 614 km (381 mi). Inclination: 47.00 deg.

• Orbcomm FM118 - . Nation: USA. Class: Communications. Type: Communications satellite. Spacecraft: SN-100. USAF Sat Cat: 41183 . COSPAR: 2015-081E. Apogee: 654 km (406 mi). Perigee: 613 km (380 mi). Inclination: 47.00 deg.

• Orbcomm FM119 - . Nation: USA. Class: Communications. Type: Communications satellite. Spacecraft: SN-100. USAF Sat Cat: 41180 . COSPAR: 2015-081B. Apogee: 654 km (406 mi). Perigee: 613 km (380 mi). Inclination: 47.00 deg.

• SES-9 - . Nation: USA. Class: Communications. Type: Communications satellite. Spacecraft: Eurostar 3000. USAF Sat Cat: 41380 . COSPAR: 2016-013A. Apogee: 41,649 km (25,879 mi). Perigee: 28,569 km (17,751 mi). Inclination: 0.50 deg.

  Falcon 9 rocket F9-022 first stage flew to an apogee of around 160 km and descended 660 km downrange to crash on the droneship "Of Course I Still Love You" at about 73.8W 28.3N, in a technology test to develop experience for future landing attempts. The second stage accelerated to reach a 160 x 531 km x 28.5 deg parking orbit at 2344 UTC and then reignited at 0002 UTC Mar 5 to reach a 334 x 40648 km x 28.0 deg transfer orbit. The SES-9 payload separated at 0006 UTC. It was a Boeing 702HP satellite with a mass of about 5270 kg and a Ku-band communications payload for delivery of services to Asia and the Indian Ocean from 108.2E. By Mar 14, SES-9 was in a 28569 x 41649 km x 0.5 deg orbit.

• Dragon CRS-8 - . Nation: USA. Class: Manned. Type: Manned logistics spacecraft. Spacecraft: Dragon. Decay Date: 2016-05-11 . USAF Sat Cat: 41452 . COSPAR: 2016-024A. Apogee: 353 km (219 mi). Perigee: 209 km (129 mi). Inclination: 51.70 deg.

  Falcon 9 F9-023 launched a Dragon with the Bigelow BEAM inflatable module experiment in its trunk. CRS-8 was scheduled to arrive at ISS on Apr 10. The F9-023 first stage performed boostback and reentry burns to successfully land on the ship "Of Course I Still Love You" at 78.50W 30.50N in the Atlantic. This was the second succesful reentry and landing of a Falcon 9 first stage, following the Dec 2015 landing of F9-021 at Cape Canaveral. Dragon CRS-8 arrived at the capture point 10m from the Harmony module at 1115 UTC Apr 10. The Canadarm-2 grappled it at 1123 UTC and berthed it on Harmony's nadir CBM port at 1357 UTC. At about 0600 UTC on Apr 16 the BEAM module was extracted from Dragon's trunk; BEAM was installed on the Tranquility module's aft port at 0937 UTC Apr 16. CRS-8 was unberthed at 1102 UTC May 11 and released into space at 1319 UTC. After a deorbit burn at 1801 UTC it splashed down around 120.1W 31.4N, off the coast of California, at 1851 UTC. The CRS-8 Dragon brought back to Earth the EMU 3011 spacesuit implicated in the Parmitano and Kopra water leaks. EMU 3011 was launched into space on mission STS-132 in 2010. Also brought back aboard CRS-8 were the Flock-2b 11 and 12 cubesats which failed to deploy from the ISS last October. Nanoracks deployers NRCSD-5 and NRCSD-6 were also returned to Earth on CRS-8. The Bigelow Expansion Activity Module (BEAM) remains attached to Node 3. On May 28 the module expansion was successfuly carried out; the process of expanding and pressurizing the module took from 1305 to 2044 UTC. The diameter of the module was 3.2metres; its length was increased by 1.8m to about 3.7m.

• JCSAT 14 - . Payload: JCSAT 2B. Nation: USA. Class: Communications. Type: Communications satellite. Spacecraft: FS-1300. USAF Sat Cat: 41471 . COSPAR: 2016-028A. Apogee: 35,864 km (22,284 mi). Perigee: 35,758 km (22,218 mi). Inclination: 0.00 deg.

  Placed in geosynchronous orbit at 176 deg E. SSL-1300 comms platform built by SSL-MDA, launched by into geotransfer orbit. The Falcon 9 first stage landed downrange on the SpaceX droneship Of Course I Still Love You. Each of the JCSAT series satellites has two names - essentially, a name that identifies the physical satellite and a name that marks the service it was providing at a specific orbital slot.

• Thaicom 8 - . Nation: USA. Class: Communications. Type: Communications satellite. Spacecraft: GEOStar-2. USAF Sat Cat: 41552 . COSPAR: 2016-031A. Apogee: 90,190 km (56,040 mi). Perigee: 347 km (215 mi). Inclination: 21.20 deg. SpaceX launched the Thaicom-8 satellite to a high apogee supersynchronous transfer orbit. The Falcon 9 first stage landed safely on the 'Of Course I Still Love You' in the Atlantic. Orbital Star-2.3 bus..

• Eutelsat 117 West B - . Nation: USA. Class: Communications. Type: Communications satellite. Spacecraft: HS 702. USAF Sat Cat: 41589 . COSPAR: 2016-038B. Apogee: 62,761 km (38,997 mi). Perigee: 399 km (247 mi). Inclination: 24.70 deg. Eutelsat 117 West B (the former Satmex 9) to provide service for Eutelsat Americas, supplementing Satmex 8 (now renamed Eutelsat 117 West A). Boeing BSS-702SP satellite with all-electric-propulsion, which use ion engines to complete the trip to GEO..

• ABS-2A - . Nation: USA. Class: Communications. Type: Communications satellite. Spacecraft: HS 702. USAF Sat Cat: 41588 . COSPAR: 2016-038A. Apogee: 62,649 km (38,928 mi). Perigee: 395 km (245 mi). Inclination: 24.60 deg.

  The Falcon 9 vehicle 26 second stage made two burns to deliver a pair of Boeing BSS-702SP satellites to supersynchronous transfer orbits. This was the second matched pair of all-electric-propulsion payloads, which use ion engines to complete the trip to GEO. ABS-2A will supplement Asia Broadcast Satellite's ABS-2

• Dragon CRS-9 - . Nation: USA. Class: Manned. Type: Manned logistics spacecraft. Spacecraft: Dragon. Decay Date: 2016-08-26 . USAF Sat Cat: 41672 . COSPAR: 2016-046A. Apogee: 355 km (220 mi). Perigee: 204 km (126 mi). Inclination: 51.60 deg.

  SpaceX's Dragon CRS-9 cargo ship carried the IDA-2 docking adapter and spacesuit EMU 3006. The Falcon 9 first stage returned to Cape Canaveral for a landing at Landing Complex 1. The second stage was deorbited south of Australia. CRS-9 arrived at the ISS on Jul 20; it was grappled by the SSRMS at 1056 UTC and berthed at Harmony nadir at 1403 UTC. The IDA-2 docking adapter will be installed on the end of the old PMA-2 Shuttle docking port to conver On Aug 25 at about 2100 UTC the SSRMS (Canadarm-2) unberthed Dragon CRS-9 from the Harmony module. At 1011 UTC the Dragon was released into orbit; at 1456 UTC Dragon fired its Draco thrusters in a deorbit burn which sent it plunging into the atmosphere at about 1520 UTC. The empty trunk was jettisoned at 1513 UTC. Dragon splashed down off the coast of Baja at 1547 UTC. Spacesuit EMU 3005 was returned to Earth aboard CRS-9.

• JCSAT-16 - . Nation: Japan. Class: Communications. Type: Communications satellite. Spacecraft: FS-1300. USAF Sat Cat: 41729 . COSPAR: 2016-050A. Apogee: 36,183 km (22,483 mi). Perigee: 151 km (93 mi). Inclination: 20.90 deg.

  JCSAT-16 satellite for Sky Perfect JSAT, a Japanese satellite broadcasting company. The second stage put JCSAT-16 in geostationary transfer orbit, while the first stage completed a ballistic trajectory and landed on the droneship 'Of Course I Still Love You' in the Atlantic. After its first orbit raising burn, JCSAT-16 was in a 5581 x 35905 km x 10.8 deg orbit. The Falcon 9 second stage was in an 82 x 34111 km geotransfer orbit, ensuring quick orbital decay.

• Iridium Next SV01 - . Payload: Iridium 106. Nation: USA. Class: Communications. Type: Communications satellite. Spacecraft: ELiTeBus. USAF Sat Cat: 41917 . COSPAR: 2017-003A. Apogee: 626 km (388 mi). Perigee: 617 km (383 mi). Inclination: 86.70 deg.

  See Iridium-NEXT 102. The first cluster of second generation communications satellites for Iridium Communications was launched, aboard the first SpaceX Falcon 9 to fly since the Amos-6 pad accident the previous year. The Falcon 9 placed all ten satellites in the correct orbit, and the first stage landed on the barge 'Just Read The Instructions'. The Falcon 9 second stage was expected to be deorbited over Antarctica. However, JSpOC was tracking 11 objects in orbit rather than the expected The Iridium satellites carry communications payloads for global mobile communications coverage as well as Aireon ADS-B airplane data relay payloads and, on four of the 10 satellites, AIS ship tracking payloads for the Canadian company ExactEarth.

• Iridium Next SV02 - . Payload: Iridium 103. Nation: USA. Class: Communications. Type: Communications satellite. Spacecraft: ELiTeBus. USAF Sat Cat: 41918 . COSPAR: 2017-003B. Apogee: 622 km (386 mi). Perigee: 610 km (370 mi). Inclination: 86.70 deg. See Iridium-NEXT 103. ..

• Iridium Next SV03 - . Payload: Iridium 109. Nation: USA. Class: Communications. Type: Communications satellite. Spacecraft: ELiTeBus. USAF Sat Cat: 41919 . COSPAR: 2017-003C. Apogee: 621 km (385 mi). Perigee: 608 km (377 mi). Inclination: 86.70 deg. See Iridium-NEXT 109. ..

• Iridium Next SV04 - . Payload: Iridium 102. Nation: USA. Class: Communications. Type: Communications satellite. Spacecraft: ELiTeBus. USAF Sat Cat: 41920 . COSPAR: 2017-003D. Apogee: 621 km (385 mi). Perigee: 608 km (377 mi). Inclination: 86.70 deg. See Iridium-NEXT 102. ..

• Iridium Next SV05 - . Payload: Iridium 105. Nation: USA. Class: Communications. Type: Communications satellite. Spacecraft: ELiTeBus. USAF Sat Cat: 41921 . COSPAR: 2017-003E. Apogee: 619 km (384 mi). Perigee: 605 km (375 mi). Inclination: 86.70 deg. See Iridium-NEXT 105. ..

• Iridium Next SV06 - . Payload: Iridium 104. Nation: USA. Class: Communications. Type: Communications satellite. Spacecraft: ELiTeBus. USAF Sat Cat: 41922 . COSPAR: 2017-003F. Apogee: 621 km (385 mi). Perigee: 610 km (370 mi). Inclination: 86.70 deg. See Iridium-NEXT 104. ..

• Iridium Next SV07 - . Payload: Iridium 114. Nation: USA. Class: Communications. Type: Communications satellite. Spacecraft: ELiTeBus. USAF Sat Cat: 41923 . COSPAR: 2017-003G. Apogee: 617 km (383 mi). Perigee: 610 km (370 mi). Inclination: 86.70 deg. See Iridium-NEXT 114. ..

• Iridium Next SV08 - . Payload: Iridium 108. Nation: USA. Class: Communications. Type: Communications satellite. Spacecraft: ELiTeBus. USAF Sat Cat: 41924 . COSPAR: 2017-003H. Apogee: 622 km (386 mi). Perigee: 607 km (377 mi). Inclination: 86.70 deg. See Iridium-NEXT 108. ..

• Iridium Next SV09 - . Payload: Iridium 112. Nation: USA. Class: Communications. Type: Communications satellite. Spacecraft: ELiTeBus. USAF Sat Cat: 41925 . COSPAR: 2017-003J. Apogee: 621 km (385 mi). Perigee: 604 km (375 mi). Inclination: 86.70 deg. See Iridium-NEXT 112. ..

• Iridium Next SV10 - . Payload: Iridium 111. Nation: USA. Class: Communications. Type: Communications satellite. Spacecraft: ELiTeBus. USAF Sat Cat: 41926 . COSPAR: 2017-003K. Apogee: 622 km (386 mi). Perigee: 609 km (378 mi). Inclination: 86.70 deg. See Iridium-NEXT 111. ..

• Dragon CRS-10 - . Nation: USA. Program: ISS. Class: Manned. Type: Manned logistics spacecraft. Spacecraft: Dragon. Decay Date: 2017-03-19 . USAF Sat Cat: 42053 . COSPAR: 2017-009A. Apogee: 359 km (223 mi). Perigee: 204 km (126 mi). Inclination: 51.60 deg.

  See Dragon CRS-10 (SpX 10, Dragon C112). Dragon CRS-10 was launched from Kennedy Space Center LC39A aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9; the first non-NASA launch operation ever from KSC and the first launch from KSC since 2011. NASA KSC abuts USAF Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on its northern side; previous Falcon 9 east coast launches were from SLC40 at Cape Canaveral. On this flight the Falcon 9 first stage, B1031, landed at Cape Canaveral's LZ1. CRS-10 carried three packages in its trunk for installation on ISS. The USAF Space Test Program's STP-H5 experiment suite includes a NASA lightning sensor and NRL ionosphere-study experiments. SAGE-III IP continued a long series of NASA ozone monitoring studies. SAGE-III NVP (Nadir Viewing Platform) was an adapter which will allow the IP to be installed sideways on the ISS ELC platform. On Feb 22 Dragon aborted its approach to the ISS at a distance of 1.2 km due to a navigation system error. Rendezvous was rescheduled for Feb 23 when Dragon was grappled by the SSRMS at 1044 UTC, then berthed on the Harmony module. he Dextre and Canadarm-2 robot arms were used to unload the experiments in the Dragon external cargo trunk on Feb 25-Mar 7 in a rather complicated sequence involving Dextre's two main arms and its EOTP (Enhanced ORU Temp Platform, a storage position). The experiments were installed on the Express Logistics Carriers ELC-1 and ELC-4 on the station truss. Older experiments from ELC-1, ELC-2 and ELC-4 were removed for disposal. These incuded the These included the OPALS laser comm payload launched in 2014; the RRM Robotic Refuelling Mission experiment of 2011, and the MISSE FSE adapter that mounted the MISSE 7 and 8 materials exposure experiments of 2009. These packages, with a total mass of 811 kg, were destroyed on reentry when the Dragon trunk was jettisoned following Dragon's deorbit burn. Dragon was unberthed from the Harmony module at 2145 UTC Mar 18 and released by Canadarm-2 at 0911 UTC Mar 19. After a deorbit burn at 1355 UTC it splashed down in the Pacific near 31 44N 121 15W at 1446 UTC, carrying 1652 kg of ISS return cargo. This return cargo includd 104 kg of unspecified EVA equipment.

• Echostar 23 - . Nation: USA. Class: Communications. Type: Communications satellite. Spacecraft: FS-1300. USAF Sat Cat: 42070 . COSPAR: 2017-014A. Apogee: 35,903 km (22,309 mi). Perigee: 179 km (111 mi). Inclination: 22.40 deg.

  See EchoStar 23. Echostar 23 communications sat to provide television services to Brazil and Latin America for Echostar Corp. It was launched by Falcon 9 F31; the first stage on this mission did not have landing legs and no recovery was attempted.

• SES-10 - . Nation: Europe. Class: Communications. Type: Communications satellite. USAF Sat Cat: 42432 . COSPAR: 2017-017A. Apogee: 35,673 km (22,166 mi). Perigee: 246 km (152 mi). Inclination: 26.20 deg.

  See SES 10. SpaceX launched the 5300 kg SES-10 communications satellite into a 246 x 35673 km x 26.2 deg geotransfer orbit. After several orbit raising burns SES-10 reached a 35775 x 35796 km x 0.1 deg geostationary orbit at 68.5W on Apr 11. The Falcon 9 F9-033 second stage reduced its apogee slightly, ending up in a 235 x 33407 km orbit. The first stage was Falcon 9 core B1021, which had previously flown on the F9-023/CRS-8 mission in Apr 2016. The reused stage performed successfully and landed for a second time on the ASDS drone ship 'Of Course I Still Love You' in the Atlantic.