Iridium-8 Mission Falcon 9 Liftoff, Vandenberg Air Force Base, California

Iridium-8 Mission. On Friday, January 11 at 7:31 a.m. PST, 15:31 UTC, SpaceX successfully launched the eighth and final set of satellites in a series of 75 total satellites for Iridium's next generation global satellite constellation, Iridium NEXT.