Los Angeles May 23 (IANS) The US private space firm SpaceX launched two new Earth-observing satellites for NASA and five commercial communications satellites for Iridium on a used Falcon 9 rocket in a ride-share mission on Tuesday.
The rocket blasted off from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Air Force Base the state of California at 12:47 p.m. PDT (1947 GMT) Xinhua reported.
The GRACE-FO satellites will be deployed approximately eleven minutes and thirty seconds after launch followed by the deployment of five Iridium NEXT satellites beginning about an hour after launch.

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