SpaceX Iridium-5 launch
A SpaceX Falcon 9 lifts off March 30 carrying 10 Iridium Next satellites. A new report, and other data, states that SpaceX has recently raised $500 million, a round the company has yet to publicly confirm.

Iridium will launch five of its remaining six ground spare satellites on a Falcon 9 rideshare mission in 2023, the company announced Sept. 8.

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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...