Iridium launch

Five Iridium communications satellites were launched from Vandenberg AFB, California, on 9 July. The launch, aboard a McDonnell Douglas Delta II rocket, brings the number of Iridiums in orbit to 17. A constellation of 66 satellites is planned.

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