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Launcher: Falcon 9 FT (Full Thrust, aka v1.2)
Spaceport: SpaceX LC-40 KSC
Landing: ASDS Of Course I Still Love You drone ship
Landing coordinates: 28° 16' 20" N, 73° 49' 5" W
Date: NET* January 23, 2016
Time: TBD
*NET = No Earlier Than
Payload: SES-9 geosynchronous commsat
Type: Boeing 702HP
Payload mass: 5,330 kg
SES has said that if this launcher lands intact they want to be SpaceX's first customer to re-fly on a Falcon 9, even if they have to do it uninsured. That could be SES-10 later this year. So much for the idea that reusability customers will be hard to find.
Spaceport: SpaceX LC-40 KSC
Landing: ASDS Of Course I Still Love You drone ship
Landing coordinates: 28° 16' 20" N, 73° 49' 5" W
Date: NET* January 23, 2016
Time: TBD
*NET = No Earlier Than
Payload: SES-9 geosynchronous commsat
Type: Boeing 702HP
Payload mass: 5,330 kg
SES has said that if this launcher lands intact they want to be SpaceX's first customer to re-fly on a Falcon 9, even if they have to do it uninsured. That could be SES-10 later this year. So much for the idea that reusability customers will be hard to find.
Scheduled for launch in 2016, SES-9 will be positioned at the orbital slot of 108.2° E and provide incremental as well as replacement capacity to the well established slot over Asia, where it will be co-located with the existing satellites. The satellite will expand SES’s capability to provide DTH broadcasting and other communications services in Northeast Asia, South Asia & Indonesia, as well as maritime communications for vessels in the Indian Ocean.