Deployed the seventh batch of ten Iridium NEXT communications satellites to polar orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base. First West Coast flight of a Falcon 9 Block 5 booster, which landed on the droneship Just Read The Instructions.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 8.6 T
- Flight
- 3rd
- of 638 Falcon 9 Block 5 flights
- Date and time
- 25 July 2018, 11:39 UTC
- Rocket
- Falcon 9 Block 5
- Builder
- SpaceX
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2018-061
- Launches in 2018
- 61st of 114
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