Launched the Iridium-6 batch of five Iridium NEXT communications satellites from Vandenberg alongside NASA/GFZ's twin GRACE-FO gravity-mapping satellites in a rideshare arrangement; the booster, reused from the Zuma mission, was expended.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 5.5 T
- Flight
- 10th
- of 12 Falcon 9 Block 4 flights
- Date and time
- 22 May 2018, 19:47 UTC
- Rocket
- Falcon 9 Block 4
- Builder
- SpaceX
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2018-047
- Launches in 2018
- 47th of 114
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