SpaceX Launches Falcon 9 Despite September's Explosion

The US aerospace company SpaceX has launched its Falcon 9 rocket carrying an Iridium satellite first time following the September accident. On September 1, a SpaceX-built Falcon 9 rocket with a commercial satellite on board exploded during fueling on the launch pad at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

The SpaceX rocket Falcon 9 was launched on Saturday from the Vandenberg launch site in the US state of California.

The rocket was launched at 9:54 a.m. local time (17:54 GMT).

First stage has landed on Just Read the Instructions pic.twitter.com/W0EoLaO4YR

— SpaceX (@SpaceX) 14 января 2017 г.

Webcast back in about 45 minutes for second stage re-start & deployment of 10 @IridiumComm communication satellites https://t.co/tdni53IviI pic.twitter.com/ihek2Wz8Jn

— SpaceX (@SpaceX) 14 января 2017 г.

It carried 10 communication satellites Iridium Next, belonging to the Iridium Communications company. That was the first Falcon 9 launch since an incident occurred in fall 2016.