F9 JCSAT 14 MISSION PATCH

F9 JCSAT 14 MISSION PATCH

Making its fourth flight of the year, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket has deployed the JCSAT-14 communications satellite Friday. The mission, which included another – and successful – experimental attempt to recover the rocket’s first stage, launched from Cape Canaveral at the start of a two-hour window that opened at 01:21 local time (05:21 UTC).

Falcon 9 Launch:

JCSAT-14 was the ninth geostationary communications satellite launched by SpaceX, with Friday’s mission the eighth time Falcon 9 has targeted a geosynchronous transfer orbit.