Falcon 9 Iridium-1 launch
A SpaceX Falcon 9 lifts off Jan. 14 from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, carrying ten Iridium Next satellites.

The first launch from Complex 39A in Florida, formerly used by the space shuttle, will now be a Dragon cargo mission to the space station set to fly in mid-February.

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Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The...