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SpaceX is targeting launch of Iridium-6/GRACE-FO on Tuesday, May 22 from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. The instantaneous launch opportunity is at 12:47 p.m. PDT, or 19:47 UTC. The GRACE-FO satellites will be deployed approximately eleven minutes and thirty seconds after launch, followed by the deployment of five Iridium® NEXT satellites beginning about an hour after launch. 

 A backup instantaneous launch opportunity is available on Wednesday, May 23 at 12:42 p.m. PDT, or 19:42 UTC.  

Gallery: SpaceX’s 2019 launch manifest begins

SpaceX conducted its first launch of 2019 with the flight of the Iridium 8 mission from Vandenberg Air Force Base’s Space Launch Complex 4E in California. Photo Credit: Ashly Cullumber / SpaceFlight Insider

LOMPOC, Calif. — SpaceX carried out its first launch of the company’s 2019 manifest with the flight of 10 Iridium NEXT satellites. Liftoff of the Iridium 8 mission occurred at 7:31 a.m. PST…

Gallery: SSO-A soars in historic flight

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off with 64 satellites bound for orbit on the SSO-A mission that launched on Monday, Dec. 3, 2018. Photo Credit: Ashly Cullumber / SpaceFlight Insider

LOMPOC, Calif. — A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket (with a first stage on its third mission) lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base’s Space Launch Complex 4E in California on Monday, Dec. 3, 2018. The mission got underway…

SpaceX sets record with launch of 64 satellites on SSO-A

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off with 64 satellites bound for orbit on the SSO-A mission that launched on Monday, Dec. 3, 2018. Photo Credit: Alex Ustick / SpaceFlight Insider

LOMPOC, Calif. — Overcoming numerous delays, SpaceX completed one of its most complex missions yet – the delivery of 64 satellites to a Sun-synchronous orbit (SSO) as part of the SSO-A mission that launched today. (more…)