Original embroidered patch for the Falcon 9 Flight 26, a space launch conducted by SpaceX on June 25, 2016, from the Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. The patch measures 4.25" x 4.25" and shows a Falcon 9 rocket launching to space high over the Earth, with Florida marked in gold; a small four-leaf clover is present in the lower border, which reads: "0060, ABS, Eutelsat, Mission 2." The number on the patch ("0060") indicates the seniority of the employee to whom it was issued: the lower the number, the more senior the employee. Low numbered patches are extremely hard to find. In very fine condition.
Falcon 9 flight 26 launched both ABS's ABS-2A and Eutelsat's Eutelsat 117 West B (formerly Satmex 9) to geostationary transfer orbit. The ABS-2A was the second all-electric propulsion satellite launched in 2016, and was funded by a US Ex-Im bank loan to expand high-tech US jobs. The Eutelsat 117 West B is a satellite with 48 Ku band 36 MHz equivalent transponders, capable of serving all of Satmex's Latin American customers in the video, telecommunications and government sectors. It will also carry a Wide-Area Augmentation System, a payload that will enable the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to enhance aviation safety.
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