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    Home»World»Watch | SpaceX lifts 10 Iridium satellites into orbit

    Watch | SpaceX lifts 10 Iridium satellites into orbit

    World By Agency Staff9 October 2017
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    Elon Musk’s SpaceX successfully launched its 14th Falcon 9 rocket of the year, bringing the company a step closer to the 20 to 24 total missions it’s targeted for 2017.

    The pre-dawn launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base on California’s central coast carried 10 communications satellites for customer Iridium Communications to low-earth orbit, where deployment took place about an hour after the launch.

    The mission was SpaceX’s third for Iridium this year. SpaceX plans to deploy a total of 75 satellites for Iridium by mid-2018 as the communications company works to upgrade the world’s largest commercial network of low-earth orbit satellites. SpaceX is scheduled to complete five more launches for Iridium over the next year.

    The process of replacing the satellites one-by-one in a constellation of this size and scale has never been completed before

    “The process of replacing the satellites one-by-one in a constellation of this size and scale has never been completed before,” SpaceX said in a statement ahead of the launch.

    After take-off, SpaceX successfully landed the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket on a droneship in the Pacific Ocean for future reuse. Recovering and refurbishing rockets is key to Musk’s goal to make space travel affordable. Musk, who’s also CEO of electric car maker Tesla, founded SpaceX in 2002 with the ultimate aim of enabling people to live on other planets.

    The closely held company is expected to launch its next rocket on Wednesday. The upcoming mission, which will take off from Florida, will deliver a high-powered communications satellite for customers EchoStar and SES.

    In addition to contracts with commercial satellite operators and the US military, Hawthorne, California-based SpaceX has a US$1.6bn contract with Nasa to resupply the International Space Station and a second pact valued at as much as $2.6bn to eventually transport crews to the orbiting lab.  — Reported by Dana Hull, (c) 2017 Bloomberg LP

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