Overview

• SpaceX launched the satellites on July 22 at 5:12 p.m. EDT from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
• The launch followed a last-minute scrub the previous day, illustrating the tight schedules of frequent Falcon 9 missions
• The Falcon 9’s first stage touched down on the Just Read the Instructions droneship after 8.5 minutes, marking its sixth successful recovery
• The mission deployed the ninth and tenth satellites in SES’s O3b mPOWER constellation, bringing the in-orbit total to ten
• SES plans to orbit more than 30 O3b mPOWER satellites by 2027 to expand global low-latency broadband coverage