1, 2016 calamity was the second Falcon 9 failure within 15 months time. 1, 2016.Īnother launch failure would have dealt a devastating blow to confidence in SpaceX's hard won reputation. Today's successful blastoff took place barely four and a half months after another Falcon 9 and its $200 million Israeli commercial payload were suddenly destroyed during a prelaunch fueling test on the Florida Space Coast on Sept. 14, 2017, Return to Flight launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California carrying fleet of ten advanced Iridium NEXT comsats to low Earth orbit. Picture perfect blastoff of SpaceX Falcon 9 on Jan. The inaugural ten will serve as the vanguard of a fleet that will eventually comprise 81 satellites.
SPACEX FALCON 9 LAUNCH DEC 15 2017 FULL
"Thanks – a perfect flight! Loved watching sats deploy with you in the control room," tweeted Matt Desch, Iridium Communications CEO, soon after receiving full confirmation that all 10 Iridium NEXT satellites were successfully deployed from their second stage satellite dispensers. The primary goal of SpaceX's Falcon 9 launch from Space Launch Complex 4E on Vandenberg Air Force Base in California was to deploy the payload of the first ten Iridium Next communication satellites to low Earth orbit on the Iridium-1 mission. 14) that successfully delivered a fleet of ten advanced Iridium NEXT mobile voice and data relay satellites to orbit while simultaneously recovering the first stage on a ship at sea off the west coast of California. With Billions and Billions of dollars at stake and their reputation riding on the line, SpaceX came roaring back to life by dramatically executing a picture perfect Falcon 9 rocket launch this morning (Jan.
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