{"id":13147,"date":"2019-06-17T18:47:27","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T10:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/photos-falcon-9s-fog-enshrouded-launch-and-landing-at-vandenberg\/"},"modified":"2019-06-17T18:47:27","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T10:47:27","slug":"photos-falcon-9s-fog-enshrouded-launch-and-landing-at-vandenberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/photos-falcon-9s-fog-enshrouded-launch-and-landing-at-vandenberg\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Falcon 9\u2019s fog-enshrouded launch and landing at Vandenberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These photos show the June 12 launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California with three Earth-observing satellites for Canada\u2019s Radarsat Constellation Mission.<\/p>\n<p>The 229-foot-tall Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Space Launch Complex 4-East at Vandenberg at 7:17 a.m. PDT (10:17 a.m. EDT; 1417 GMT). Eight minutes later, the Falcon 9\u2019s first stage returned to Vandenberg for a propulsive touchdown at Landing Zone 4 around a quarter-mile from the launch pad.<\/p>\n<p>Read our full story for details on the mission.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_38894\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38894\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-38894\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/48052269657_e236290f92_k.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/48052269657_e236290f92_k.jpg 900w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/48052269657_e236290f92_k-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/48052269657_e236290f92_k-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/48052269657_e236290f92_k-678x452.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-38894\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: SpaceX<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_38895\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38895\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-38895\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/48052269617_4611839bea_k.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/48052269617_4611839bea_k.jpg 900w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/48052269617_4611839bea_k-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/48052269617_4611839bea_k-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/48052269617_4611839bea_k-678x452.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-38895\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: SpaceX<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_38896\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38896\" style=\"width: 678px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-38896\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/48052224858_d0261c665c_k.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"847\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/48052224858_d0261c665c_k.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/48052224858_d0261c665c_k-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-38896\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: SpaceX<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_38897\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38897\" style=\"width: 678px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-38897\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/48052269562_4b1468b19f_k.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"949\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/48052269562_4b1468b19f_k.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/48052269562_4b1468b19f_k-214x300.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-38897\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: SpaceX<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_38898\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38898\" style=\"width: 678px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-38898\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/48052182461_28527a0e61_k.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"847\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/48052182461_28527a0e61_k.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/48052182461_28527a0e61_k-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-38898\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: SpaceX<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_38853\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38853\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-38853\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/D85jdSUUYAAVVZ4.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/D85jdSUUYAAVVZ4.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/D85jdSUUYAAVVZ4-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/D85jdSUUYAAVVZ4-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/D85jdSUUYAAVVZ4-678x452.jpeg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-38853\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: SpaceX<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><b><i>Email the author.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Follow Stephen Clark on Twitter: @StephenClark1.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These photos show the June 12 launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California with three Earth-observing satellites for Canada\u2019s Radarsat Constellation Mission. The 229-foot-tall Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Space Launch Complex 4-East at Vandenberg at 7:17 a.m. PDT (10:17 a.m. EDT; 1417 GMT). Eight minutes later, [&hellip;]<\/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":[584,880,159,479,685,25,1084,194],"class_list":["post-13147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-canada","tag-canadian-space-agency","tag-earth-observation","tag-falcon-9","tag-landing-zone-4","tag-launch","tag-maxar","tag-mda"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13147"}],"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=13147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}