SpaceX's return-to-flight mission after the September 2016 Amos-6 pad explosion launched the first 10 Iridium NEXT satellites from Vandenberg, with the first stage landing on the droneship Just Read the Instructions.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 8.6 T
- Flight
- 9th
- of 24 Falcon 9 Full Thrust flights
- Date and time
- 14 January 2017, 17:54 UTC
- Rocket
- Falcon 9 Full Thrust
- Builder
- SpaceX
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2017-003
- Launches in 2017
- 3rd of 90
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Space Atlas shows the satellites and rocket stages from this launch in 3D.
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