NEXT SPACEFLIGHT

Status

Success

Iridium-8

Launch Time
Fri Jan 11, 2019 15:31 UTC

Rocket

Falcon 9 Block 5
Image Credit: SpaceX
SpaceX
Status: Active
Price: $69.75 million
Liftoff Thrust: 7,607 kN
Payload to LEO: 22,800 kg
Payload to GTO: 8,300 kg
Stages: 2
Strap-ons: 0
Rocket Height: 70.0 m
Fairing Diameter: 5.2 m
Fairing Height: 13.0 m

Vehicles

Just Read the Instructions

B1049

Flight #2
123 day turnaround
45th Falcon recovery attempt
38th successful Falcon recovery
1st consecutive successful Falcon landing and recovery

Mission Details

Iridium-8

Ten Iridium NEXT satellites will help upgrade the Iridium Constellation. The launch is the last and final of the eight that Iridium has purchased from SpaceX and will complete the 75 satellite constellation. The Iridium satellite constellation provides L-band voice and data coverage to satellite phones, pagers and integrated transceivers over the entire Earth surface.

Payloads: 10
Total Mass: 9,600.0 kg
Polar Orbit

Location

SLC-4E, Vandenberg SFB, California, USA

Stats

2019

2nd orbital launch attempt

SpaceX

74th mission
1st mission of 2019
68th successful mission
40th consecutive successful mission

Falcon 9

68th mission
1st mission of 2019
65th successful mission
39th consecutive successful mission