 On January 14, 2017, 10 years after the campaign was first announced, the first of eight Iridium NEXT launches took place with SpaceX from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.Over the next two years, Iridium sent an additional 65 satellites into low Earth orbit to completely replace the original satellite constellation.The final Iridium NEXT launch took place on January 11, 2019, less than 2 years after the first launch.