Deployed the second batch of 10 Iridium NEXT satellites into low Earth orbit from Vandenberg. It was the first Falcon 9 flight with upgraded titanium grid fins, and the first stage landed on the droneship Just Read the Instructions in the Pacific.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 8.6 T
- Flight
- 17th
- of 24 Falcon 9 Full Thrust flights
- Date and time
- 25 June 2017, 20:25 UTC
- Rocket
- Falcon 9 Full Thrust
- Builder
- SpaceX
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2017-039
- Launches in 2017
- 41st of 90
See it in orbit
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