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		</div><p>Spacecraft firm SpaceX has launched a Falcon 9 rocket into space in its first mission of 2019 – and its last for satellite company Iridium.</p>
<p>For the last two years, SpaceX has been sending its customer Iridium’s replacement communication satellites into orbit, as part of Iridium Next, a new global network costing three billion dollars.</p>
<p>Iridium-8 is the eighth and final mission for Iridium, launching at 10.31am ET (3.31pm GMT) from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.</p>
<p>It is carrying ten satellites to join the other 65 that have been put into space at since January 14, 2017.</p>
<figure id="attachment_123835" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-123835" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/79316A32-F0F9-4768-83AA-A53FCB8EC96E.jpeg"><img class="size-full wp-image-123835" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/79316A32-F0F9-4768-83AA-A53FCB8EC96E.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="343" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-123835" class="wp-caption-text">The first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket lands on a drone ship in the Pacific Ocean</figcaption></figure>
<p>SpaceX also carried out its first successful rocket landing of the year, with the first stage of Falcon 9 touching down on an autonomous drone ship called ‘Just Read the Instructions’, in the Pacific Ocean.</p>
<p>The Elon Musk-founded aerospace firm carried out 18 missions in 2017, 21 in 2018 – a company record. It already has 39 lined up for the future, for a range of organisations including Nasa and Airbus.</p>
<p>Final deployment of Iridium’s 10 satellites is expected to take place about an hour after lift-off.</p>
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