{"id":68158,"date":"2017-05-30T19:24:44","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T11:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/new-target-date-for-second-iridium-next-launch\/"},"modified":"2017-05-30T19:24:44","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T11:24:44","slug":"new-target-date-for-second-iridium-next-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/new-target-date-for-second-iridium-next-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"New Target Date for Second Iridium Next Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Iridium Communications<\/strong> announced that the second launch for its Next satellite constellation has been moved earlier, and is now targeted for June 25 at 1:24 a.m. PDT with an instantaneous launch window.&nbsp;<strong>SpaceX<\/strong> informed Iridium that range availability had opened up at Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB) in California, where SpaceX\u2019s West Coast launch facility is located, and planned to target Iridium\u2019s launch four days earlier than originally scheduled. This launch will deliver the second payload of 10 Iridium Next satellites to orbit, bringing the total to 20 Iridium Next satellites in space.<\/p>\n<p>Iridium has partnered with SpaceX for a series of eight launches scheduled to take place through mid-2018, delivering a total of 75 satellites to Low Earth Orbit (LEO). Iridium Next is replacing the company\u2019s existing constellation of satellites with more powerful capabilities, including <strong>Aireon\u2019s<\/strong> space-based global real-time aircraft surveillance and tracking service.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSatellites have already started to arrive at the launch site and are undergoing pre-launch preparations, so we\u2019ll be ready to go.&nbsp; An earlier launch date is all the better for our constellation deployment plans,\u201d said Matt Desch, Iridium Chief Executive Officer (CEO).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iridium Communications announced that the second launch for its Next satellite constellation has been moved earlier, and is now targeted for June 25 at 1:24 a.m. PDT with an instantaneous launch window.&nbsp;SpaceX informed Iridium that range availability had opened up at Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB) in California, where SpaceX\u2019s West Coast launch facility is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68158"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}