SpaceX Reuses Falcon 9 For Test Set Of Iridium Sats
Credit: Falcon 9: SpaceX
LOS ANGELES—Using a Falcon 9 first stage already employed to loft Iridium satellites in 2017, SpaceX successfully deployed another batch of 10 of the communication company’s Next satellites into orbit after lifting off from Vandenberg AFB, California, on March 30. The Iridium-5 launch, which took...
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