While SpaceX continues to investigate a payload fairing issue, the company’s only two confirmed December missions remain on track for their respective launches, including Iridium NEXT-4. The Iridium NEXT-4 mission is not affected by the payload fairing issue and is processing toward a planned No Earlier Than 22 December launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California – a launch that will make Iridium the first company to reuse the same Falcon 9 booster for two of its missions.
The eighth and final Iridium NEXT launch – that was conducted on Friday – will…
The latest set of Iridium NEXT satellites have arrived at Vandenberg Air Force Base in…
The unprecedented destruction and humanitarian crises spawned by Hurricanes Maria and Irma revealed the significant…
Iridium Communications – in the midst of launching their next generation communications constellation – has…
In what has already been a busy year for SpaceX, the commercial launch provider is…
When it was quietly announced in December 2017 that U.S. Space Command and the 45th…
SpaceX has launched with the debuting of an upgraded payload fairing for the Falcon 9…
For the second time this week, SpaceX has static fired one of their rockets at…
SpaceX has conducted the important static fire of the Falcon 9 rocket that will be…
Fifteen months after a static fire accident removed SLC-40 from operation, SpaceX is complete with…
