SpaceX – SAOCOM 1A Mission Success

CONAE – SAOCOM 1A Mission patch.

October 8, 2018

Falcon 9 launches SAOCOM 1A

On Sunday, October 7 at 7:21 p.m. PDT, SpaceX successfully launched the SAOCOM 1A satellite from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The satellite was deployed about 12 minutes after liftoff.

SAOCOM 1A Mission

Following stage separation, Falcon 9’s first stage returned to land at SpaceX’s Landing Zone 4 (LZ-4) at Vandenberg Air Force Base. This was SpaceX’s first land landing on the West Coast. LZ-4 is built on the former site of Space Launch Complex 4W, from which Titan rockets were previously launched.

SAOCOM 1A

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the SAOCOM 1A for CONAE, Argentina’s space agency. SAOCOM 1A is the first of two SAOCOM 1-series Earth observation satellites designed to provide radar imagery to help emergency responders and monitor the environment, including the collection of soil moisture measurements.

For more information about SpaceX, visit: https://www.spacex.com/

CONAE: https://www.argentina.gob.ar/ciencia/conae

Images, Video, Text, Credits: SpaceX/CONAE.

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