SpaceX have successfully launched their Falcon 9 Full Thrust rocket today in a rocket launch that occurred at January 14th 2016 at 17:54 UTC from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Just 3 months after a failure in the second stage caused a Falcon 9 to explode on the launch pad in Florida, destroying the payload and badly damaging the launch pad.
Todays rocket launch lifted 10 Iridium NEXT satellites into orbit on the first flight for Iridium of a planned 8 launches. Iridium use Low Earth orbiting satellites in large constellations to provide mobile connectivity to users back on Earth.
The first stage of this mission as per usual missions for SpaceX now, attempted a landing on an Ocean going barge named Just Read the Instructions. The landing was successful and marks the seventh Falcon 9 first stage to be recovered.
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Videos related to STS-135, Space Shuttle Atlantis which is due to launch in July 2011, STS-135 will be the final ever Space Shuttle mission.
STS-135 will bring to the International Space Station a Multi-Purpose Logistics Module full of cargo as well as a Lightweight Multi-Purpose Carrier. The LMC will be used to take down broken parts from the ISS. Finally STS-135 will take the Robotics Refueling Mission (RRM).