Launch Mission: Iridium NEXT Mission 1

Date: 1/14/2017

✅ Successful Launch

🧾 Mission Details

Flight #: 35

Details: Return-to-flight mission after the loss of Amos-6 in September 2016. Iridium NEXT will replace the original Iridium constellation, launched in the late 1990s. Each Falcon mission will carry 10 satellites, with a goal to complete deployment of the 66 plus 9 spare satellite constellation by mid 2018. The first two Iridium qualification units were supposed to ride a Dnepr rocket in April 2016 but were delayed, so Iridium decided to qualify the first batch of 10 satellites instead.

🚀 Rocket Details

Name: Falcon 9

Type: rocket

📍 Launchpad Details

Name: Vandenberg Space Force Base Space Launch Complex 4E

Location: Vandenberg Space Force Base, California

Launchpad Details Page

🛰️ Cores

Core Serial: B1029 — Reuse Count: 1View Core

🧑‍🚀 Payloads

Payload: Iridium NEXT 1 — Mass: 9600 kgView Payload

🚢 Ships Involved

Name: Just Read The Instructions 2 — Type: BargeView Ship
Name: NRC Quest — Type: CargoView Ship
Name: Pacific Warrior — Type: TugView Ship