SpaceX launched Falcon 9 rocket which carried 10 satellites to bolster the global data communications network for Virginia-based company Iridium.
- The rocket was launched from the Vandenberg Air Force base in California
- SpaceX is launching a series of 75 satellites for Iridium’s satellite constellation, Iridium NEXT, by 2018.
Key Facts About SpaceX
- Space Exploration Technologies Corp is known as SpaceX.
- It is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company.
- It is headquartered in Hawthorne, California.
- It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk
- It is a first privately funded liquid-propellant rocket to reach orbit
- NASA also awarded SpaceX a further development contract in 2011 to develop and demonstrate a human-rated Dragon
- This Dragon would be used to transport astronauts to the ISS and return them safely to Earth.
