This week SpaceX launched its Falcon 9 rocket (in California) to deploy ten satellites in low orbit for its customer, Iridium. The webcast is in real time and takes about 96 minutes to show the whole launch, the return of the first stage, and then the release of all ten satellites.
Falcon 9's principal integration engineer addresses fuel loading, the one-second launch window, the tower next to the rocket.
Below is a short video within that webcast. Iridium's CEO explains that their 66 satellites enable communication around the globe, making connections in remote and dangerous locations for first-responders in emergencies, and anywhere no other connection is possible. They transmit data for machines, ocean buoys, refrigerators -- the internet of things.
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