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1st LD: SpaceX launches 10 satellites for IRIDIUM on used rocket

Xinhua,March 30, 2018 Adjust font size:

LOS ANGELES, March 30 (Xinhua) -- U.S. private spaceflight company SpaceX launched on Friday morning 10 communications satellites into orbit for Iridium Communications on a used Falcon 9 rocket from California.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Air Force Base at 07:13 a.m. PDT (1413 GMT), carrying 10 satellites for Iridium Communications, as part of the company's Iridium Next constellation.

About 2.37 minutes later, the first and second stages separated.

"Second stage and @IridiumComm NEXT satellites now in coast phase," the company tweeted. Enditem

 

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