Iridium-5Falcon 9 Block 4 SpaceX Launch Status Success Fri · Mar 30th, 2018 10:13 AM EDT Watch Online https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mp0TW8vkCLg Mission Iridium-5 Type: Communications SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket will deliver 10 satellites to low Earth orbit for Iridium, a global leader in mobile voice and data satellite communications. This is the fifth set of 10 satellites in a series of 75 total satellites that SpaceX will launch for Iridium’s next generation global satellite constellation, Iridium® NEXT. Location Space Launch Complex 4E Vandenberg AFB, CA, USA 83 launches have been at this location. Rocket Falcon 9 Block 4 Length: 71 meters Diameter: 3.65 meters First Launched: December 22, 2015 The Full Thrust variants first stage includes all systems necessary for an operational re-use of stages while the second stage is operated as an expendable rocket stage. The Falcon 9 Block 4 rocket has been launched a total of 12 times with 12 successful and 0 failed launches. Landing – – Agency SpaceX Type: Commercial Abbreviation: SpX Administration: CEO: Elon Musk Founded: 2002 Launchers: Falcon Spacecraft: Dragon Country: USA Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars. SpaceX has many pads, on the East Coast of the US they own SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral and LC-39A at the Kennedy Space Center for their lower inclination launches. They also own SLC-4E at Vandenberg, California for their high inclination launches. Another site is also being developed at Boca Chica, Texas. View Rocket Launch Schedule