Status
Success
Rocket
Vehicles
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