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Falcon 9 Block 4 | Iridium-6 & GRACE-FO
Falcon 9 Block 4
May 22, 2018, 7:47 PM UTC
May 22, 2018, 7:47 PM UTC
Mission Elapsed Time
T-00:00:00
Booster History
B1043
Flight #2
Flight #2 · Last flown 2018-01-08
- Total Flights
- 2
- Recovery Rate
- 1/1 successful landings
- This Landing
- No landing attempt (expended)· Expended
- Recovery Site
- Pacific Ocean (PAC)
- Last Flight
- Falcon 9 Block 4 | Zuma · 134-day turnaround
Landing Record
1 successful · 0 failed · 1 total
Mission Details
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket will deliver 10 satellites to low Earth orbit for Iridium, a global leader in mobile voice and data satellite communications. This is the sixth set of 10 satellites in a series of 75 total satellites that SpaceX will launch for Iridium’s next generation global satellite constellation, Iridium® NEXT. Sharing this launch is the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-on mission, which is a joint project of NASA and the German Research Centre for Geosciences. It's goal is to track Earth's water movement to monitor changes in underground water storage, the amount of water in large lakes and rivers, soil moisture, ice sheets and glaciers, and sea level caused by the addition of water to the ocean.
- Type
- Communications
- Orbit
- Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
- Programs
- Iridium Constellation
Launch Site
- Pad
- Space Launch Complex 4E
- Location
- Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Country
- 🇺🇸 USA