SpaceX set to launch again Monday

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SpaceX set to launch again Monday
January 7, 2017

This NASA TV video grab file image obtained September 1, 2016 shows the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket explosion at Cape Canaveral, Florida

SpaceX plans to resume flights of its Falcon 9 rocket on Monday, after pinning down the cause of a launchpad explosion that destroyed a satellite in September, a spokesman said.


The California-based private space firm is expected to launch 10 Iridium NEXT communications satellites from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

Iridium said Friday on its website that a static test fire of the Falcon 9 had been completed and the rocket would be ready for next week's launch scheduled for 1822 GMT, weather permitting.

An unmanned SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket exploded September 1 in Cape Canaveral, destroying a satellite that Facebook planned to use to beam high-speed internet to Africa.

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2017-01-spacex-monday.html#jCp

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