| colspan=9 | Payload included eleven satellites weighing 172 kg each,<ref name=gunter-og2>{{cite web |url=http://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/orbcomm-2.htm |title=Orbcomm FM101, ..., FM119 (OG2) |publisher=Gunter's Space Page |first=Gunter |last=Krebs |access-date=April 16, 2017}}</ref> and a 142-kg mass simulator.<ref name=gunter-og2-sim>{{cite web |url=http://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/orbcomm-2-mass-simulator.htm |title=Orbcomm-OG2 Mass Simulator 1, 2 |publisher=Gunter's Space Page |first=Gunter |last=Krebs |access-date=April 16, 2017}}</ref> First launch of the upgraded v1.12 version (later called [[Falcon 9 Full Thrust]]), with a 30% power increase.<ref name=sn20151016> {{cite news |last=de Selding |first=Peter B. |title=SpaceX Changes its Falcon 9 Return-to-flight Plans |url=http://spacenews.com/spacex-changes-its-falcon-9-return-to-flight-plans/ |work=[[SpaceNews]] |date=October 16, 2015 |accessdate=October 16, 2015}}</ref> Orbcomm had originally agreed to be the third flight of the enhanced-thrust rocket,<ref name=sn20150508> {{cite news |last=de Selding |first=Peter B. |title=Orbcomm to SpaceX: Launch our Satellites Before October |url=http://spacenews.com/orbcomm-to-spacex-launch-our-satellites-before-october/ |work=[[SpaceNews]] |date=May 8, 2015 |accessdate=May 8, 2015}}</ref> but the change to the maiden flight position was announced in October 2015.<ref name=sn20151016/> SpaceX received a permit from the [[FAA]] to land the booster [[Landing Zone 1|on solid ground]] at [[CCAFS|Cape Canaveral]]<ref> {{cite news |title=SpaceX Will Try Its Next Rocket Landing on Solid Ground |first=Clay |last=Dillow |url=http://fortune.com/2015/12/02/spacex-will-try-rocket-landing-on-solid-ground/ |magazine=[[Fortune (magazine)|Fortune]] |date=December 2, 2015 |accessdate=December 4, 2015}}</ref> and succeeded for the first time.<ref name=flight20-landing> {{cite news |title=Spacex Successfully Lands Rocket after Launch of Satellites into Orbit |first=Kenneth |last=Chang |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/22/science/spacex-rocket-landing.html |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=December 21, 2015 |accessdate=December 22, 2015}}</ref> This booster, serial number [[B1019]], is now on permanent display outside SpaceX's headquarters in Hawthorne, California, at the intersection of Crenshaw Boulevard and Jack Northrop Avenue.<ref name=flight20-booster> {{cite news |title=SpaceX puts historic flown rocket on permanent display |first=Stephen |last=Clark |url=http://spaceflightnow.com/2016/08/20/spacex-puts-historic-flown-rocket-on-permanent-display/ |date=August 20, 2016 |accessdate=January 19, 2017}}</ref> <small>([[#Full-thrust version and first booster landing|more details below]])</small>
