SpaceX launched the eighth and final batch of 10 Iridium NEXT communications satellites into polar orbit from Vandenberg, completing the 75-satellite constellation replacement. The Falcon 9 first stage, reused from the Telstar 18 VANTAGE mission, landed on the droneship Just Read the Instructions.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- PO
- Polar orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 8.6 T
- Flight
- 11th
- of 638 Falcon 9 Block 5 flights
- Date and time
- 11 January 2019, 15:31 UTC
- Rocket
- Falcon 9 Block 5
- Builder
- SpaceX
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2019-002
- Launches in 2019
- 2nd of 102
See it in orbit
Space Atlas shows the satellites and rocket stages from this launch in 3D.
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