Launch Mission: Iridium NEXT Mission 7

Date: 7/25/2018

✅ Successful Launch

🧾 Mission Details

Flight #: 66

Details: SpaceX's fourteenth flight of 2018 and seventh of eight launches in a half-a-billion-dollar contract with Iridium. Will use a Block 5 first stage, to be recovered in the Pacific Ocean. Only one mission will be left for Iridium, with 10 more satellites. First attempt to recover a Fairing with the upgraded net. Fairing recovery was not successful.

🚀 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: B1048 — Reuse Count: 4View Core

🧑‍🚀 Payloads

Payload: Iridium NEXT 7 — Mass: 9600 kgView Payload

🚢 Ships Involved

Name: Just Read The Instructions 2 — Type: BargeView Ship
Name: GO Ms Tree — Type: High Speed CraftView Ship
Name: NRC Quest — Type: CargoView Ship
Name: Pacific Freeedom — Type: TugView Ship