SES confirms flight with SpaceX's landed booster

CRS-8 Booster on the Droneship

SES, an international communications satellite operator in Luxembourg have officially announced that the same booster that

Launch of CRS-8

flew CRS-8 and was the first one to land on the droneship will boost SES-10 into orbit. They say launch date will be around October from Cape Canaveral, Florida. This will be the first ever flight of one of SpaceX's reused boosters. The launch of SES-10 will help show the reliability of the boosters and will help other customers to feel safer with using reused boosters for their payloads. CRS-8 launched on April 8th, 2016 carrying the Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station and landing back on the droneship in the Atlantic Ocean for the first time. The SES-10 satellite is a

SES-9 on top of a Falcon 9

heavy satellite and needs a lot of velocity to carry it into the desired orbit. This means that the booster will have to land on thedroneship for the second time. SES-10's planned orbit is a Geostationary orbit nearly 22,300 miles above the Earth's surface.