{"id":13010,"date":"2019-08-13T22:57:22","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T14:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/photos-falcon-9-rocket-takes-off-with-the-amos-17-satellite\/"},"modified":"2019-08-13T22:57:22","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T14:57:22","slug":"photos-falcon-9-rocket-takes-off-with-the-amos-17-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/photos-falcon-9-rocket-takes-off-with-the-amos-17-satellite\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Falcon 9 rocket takes off with the Amos 17 satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"

These photos taken Aug. 6 show the liftoff of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Israeli-owned Amos 17 communications satellite, backdropped by dreary skies after thunderstorms passed through Cape Canaveral earlier in the day.<\/p>\n

The 229-foot-tall (70-meter) Falcon 9 rocket took off at 7:23 p.m. EDT (2323 GMT) on Aug. 6 from Cape Canaveral\u2019s Complex 40 launch pad. It was the SpaceX\u2019s 10th launch of the year.<\/p>\n

Nine Merlin 1D engines, each consuming densified kerosene and liquid oxygen, powered the Falcon 9 launcher off the ground with 1.7 million pounds of thrust.<\/p>\n

Read our full story for details on the mission.<\/p>\n

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These photos taken Aug. 6 show the liftoff of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Israeli-owned Amos 17 communications satellite, backdropped by dreary skies after thunderstorms passed through Cape Canaveral earlier in the day. The 229-foot-tall (70-meter) Falcon 9 rocket took off at 7:23 p.m. EDT (2323 GMT) on Aug. 6 from Cape Canaveral\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2562,670,2419,1628,291,1736,479,1672],"class_list":["post-13010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-amos-17","tag-boeing","tag-boeing-702","tag-boeing-702mp","tag-commercial-space","tag-complex-40","tag-falcon-9","tag-israel"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13010"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}