Falcon 9 deployed ten Iridium NEXT satellites (Iridium-4, satellites 31-40) from Vandenberg. The first stage was a reflight of the booster that had flown Iridium-2 in June 2017, making Iridium the first customer to reuse a Falcon 9 core.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 8.6 T
- Flight
- 22nd
- of 24 Falcon 9 Full Thrust flights
- Date and time
- 23 December 2017, 01:27 UTC
- Rocket
- Falcon 9 Full Thrust
- Builder
- SpaceX
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2017-083
- Launches in 2017
- 87th of 90
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