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Iridium-9 Launch Aboard SpaceX Falcon 9 Planned for Mid-2023

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Tom Patton
Sep 12, 2022
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The Iridium-9 launch will carry up to five of the company's remaining ground spare satellites from the Iridium NEXT program, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The launch is scheduled to take place at Vandenberg Space Force Base in mid-2023.

"We have always said that when the right opportunity presented itself, we would launch many, if not all, of our remainin…

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