Falcon 9 Launches With Iridium, Gravity-Mapping Satellites

Credit: Falcon 9 launch: NASA
PASADENA, California—A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Vandenberg AFB on May 22 on a ride-share mission to deliver five more next-generation Iridium satellites into orbit and dispatch a pair of Earth-gravity mapping spacecraft for a NASA-German science project. Following the debut launch of...

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