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Related: About this forumSpaceX to Launch 10 Communications Satellites Today: Watch Live
By Calla Cofield, Space.com Staff Writer | June 25, 2017 07:30am ET
Elon Musk's private spaceflight company SpaceX is poised to launched 10 communications satellites into low-Earth orbit today (June 25), and you can watch it live here on Space.com.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the 10 satellites for Iridium Communications is scheduled to liftoff from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 1:25 p.m. PDT (4:25 p.m. EDT/2025 GMT). The live webcast is expected to begin about 1 hour before the opening of the launch window, and you can watch it on SpaceX's website, or here at Space.com.
This is the second of eight planned Iridium launches with SpaceX. The launches will deliver a total of 75 satellites into space for the $3 billion Iridium NEXT global communications network.
SpaceX to Launch 10 Communications Satellites Today: Watch Live
This image shows the first of eight scheduled launches by SpaceX for Iridium Communications. The second Iridium communications satellite launch is scheduled for June 25, and will send 10 satellites into orbit.
Credit: SpaceX
Elon Musk's private spaceflight company SpaceX is poised to launched 10 communications satellites into low-Earth orbit today (June 25), and you can watch it live here on Space.com.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the 10 satellites for Iridium Communications is scheduled to liftoff from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 1:25 p.m. PDT (4:25 p.m. EDT/2025 GMT). The live webcast is expected to begin about 1 hour before the opening of the launch window, and you can watch it on SpaceX's website, or here at Space.com.
This is the second of eight planned Iridium launches with SpaceX. The launches will deliver a total of 75 satellites into space for the $3 billion Iridium NEXT global communications network.
"Iridium NEXT will replace the companys existing global constellation in one of the largest technology upgrades ever completed in space," according to a statement from Iridium. "It represents the evolution of critical communications infrastructure that governments and organizations worldwide rely upon to drive business, enable connectivity, empower disaster relief efforts and more."
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https://www.space.com/37303-spacex-iridium-satellite-launch-watch-live.html
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SpaceX to Launch 10 Communications Satellites Today: Watch Live (Original Post)
Judi Lynn
Jun 2017
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pangaia
(24,324 posts)1. Watched it COOL..
That's 2 launches in just a few days. More than in my last 20 years.
Thanks,
nitpicker
(7,153 posts)2. Link to MSN (includes first stage recovery)