SpaceX Falcon 9 launches Iridium-5

A SpaceX Falcon 9 launched the Iridium-5 NEXT mission, 10 satellites to low- Earth orbit for Iridium, from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, on 30 March 2018, at 14:13 UTC (07:13 PDT). Falcon 9’s first stage for the Iridium-5 mission previously supported the Iridium-3 mission from SLC-4E in October 2017. SpaceX did not attempt to recover Falcon 9’s first stage after launch. Credit: SpaceX #Falcon9launch