SpaceX’s Drone Ship ‘Just Read The Instructions’ returned to the Port of Los Angeles on Wednesday, bringing with it the first stage booster from Sunday’s successful Iridium-2 mission that delivered ten Iridium-NEXT Satellites to orbit and achieved the company’s second Pacific-based Drone Ship Landing.
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After successfully launching Bulgaria’s first telecommunications satellite on Friday with the added bonus of an ‘extra-toasty’ landing, a Falcon 9 took to the skies again on Sunday – blasting off from SpaceX’s West Coast launch site to send the second batch of Iridium-NEXT communications satellites on their way and returning the rocket’s first stage to the company’s second Drone Ship.
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The second SpaceX Falcon 9 to launch in a period of just as many days lifted off on Sunday from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, thundering into dense fog at 20:25 UTC.
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Two SpaceX launch campaigns are in their final stages on both coasts of the United States with a flight-proven Falcon 9 in the process of meeting its Bulgarian satellite payload for a Geotransfer mission out of Florida and a brand new Falcon 9 firing up its engines at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Tuesday
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The second group of ten Iridium-NEXT Communications Satellites is readied at Vandenberg Air Force Base for liftoff atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to continue the company’s replacement of the original Iridium constellation with upgraded satellites offering higher capacity and additional services within Iridium’s global communications architecture.
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