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Iridium-5

Falcon 9 Block 4

SpaceX

Launch Status
Success

Mission


Iridium-5

  • Type: Communications
  • Orbit: Low Earth Orbit
  • Launch Cost: $50,000,000

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.

Iridium-5

Location


Space Launch Complex 4E

Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

Space Launch Complex 4E has witnessed the launch of 162 rockets, including 162 orbital launch attempts, while Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA, has been the site for 774 rocket launches.

Space Launch Complex 4E

Rocket


SpaceX Falcon 9 Block 4

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.

Falcon 9 Block 4

Landing


Core B1041

Booster B1041 last launched 03/30/2018 and has seen 1 successful launches and landings. Stage Expended

Pacific Ocean – PAC

Pacific Ocean

Ocean – Ocean

No recovery attempt

B1041

Agency


SpaceX

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 operates from many pads, on the East Coast of the US they operate from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and historic LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center. They also operate from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, usually for polar launches. Another launch site is being developed at Boca Chica, Texas.

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