Wednesday, July 25, 2018

SpaceX Successfully Launches Another Iridium Mission

SpaceX successfully launched another Falcon 9 into space on Wednesday morning, putting the Iridium-7 NEXT mission into space at 4:39 a.m. PDT from Vandenberg Air Force Base. The very early morning launch is the seventh of 75 satellites that SpaceX will be delivering into space for Iridium for that company's global satellite communications network. As part of the launch, SpaceX also landed the first stage of the Falcon 9 in the Pacific Ocean, on the "Just Read the Instructions" droneship. SpaceX said that landing went well, despite "challenging" weather conditions.

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