Third batch of ten Iridium NEXT communications satellites deployed to low Earth orbit from Vandenberg on a flight-proven Falcon 9, continuing replacement of the original Iridium constellation.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 8.6 T
- Flight
- 3rd
- of 12 Falcon 9 Block 4 flights
- Date and time
- 9 October 2017, 12:37 UTC
- Rocket
- Falcon 9 Block 4
- Builder
- SpaceX
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2017-061
- Launches in 2017
- 64th of 90
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