{"id":13248,"date":"2019-04-10T18:58:59","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T10:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/photos-falcon-heavy-raised-vertical-at-pad-39a\/"},"modified":"2019-04-10T18:58:59","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T10:58:59","slug":"photos-falcon-heavy-raised-vertical-at-pad-39a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/photos-falcon-heavy-raised-vertical-at-pad-39a\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Falcon Heavy raised vertical at pad 39A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX\u2019s second Falcon Heavy, outfitted to produce more thrust than the heavy-lifter\u2019s debut flight last year, was raised vertical at launch pad 39A in Florida on Wednesday ahead of a launch attempt with the Arabsat 6A communications satellite.<\/p>\n<p>The 229-foot-tall (70-meter) rocket rolled out of SpaceX\u2019s hangar at pad 39A, the site at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center where all of the Apollo moon landing missions took off, before sunrise Wednesday. Shortly after 11 a.m. EDT (1500 GMT), the erector raised the rocket vertical in preparation for final countdown preparations.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday\u2019s launch window opens at 6:35 p.m. EDT (2235 GMT) and extends until 8:32 p.m. EDT (0032 GMT).<\/p>\n<p>The Falcon Heavy\u2019s 27 Merlin main engines will generate more than 5 million pounds of thrust at full throttle to carry the school bus-size Arabsat 6A communications satellite into orbit.<\/p>\n<p>See our Mission Status Center for updates on the countdown and launch.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_37915\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37915\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-37915\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_5441-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_5441-copy.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_5441-copy-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_5441-copy-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_5441-copy-678x452.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37915\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Stephen Clark\/Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_37916\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37916\" style=\"width: 678px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-37916\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_5454-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"1017\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_5454-copy.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_5454-copy-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37916\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Stephen Clark\/Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_37917\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37917\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-37917\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_5463.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_5463.jpg 900w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_5463-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_5463-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_5463-678x452.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37917\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Stephen Clark\/Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_37918\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37918\" style=\"width: 678px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-37918\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_5466-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"1017\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_5466-copy.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_5466-copy-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37918\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Stephen Clark\/Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_37919\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37919\" style=\"width: 678px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-37919\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_5470-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"1017\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_5470-copy.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_5470-copy-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37919\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Stephen Clark\/Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_37920\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37920\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-37920\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_1449.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_1449.jpg 900w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_1449-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_1449-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_1449-678x509.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_1449-326x245.jpg 326w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_1449-80x60.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37920\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Stephen Clark\/Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_37921\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37921\" style=\"width: 678px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-37921\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_1451-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"904\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_1451-copy.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_1451-copy-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37921\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Stephen Clark\/Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_37922\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37922\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-37922\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_5476-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_5476-copy.jpg 900w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_5476-copy-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_5476-copy-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_5476-copy-678x452.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37922\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Stephen Clark\/Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_37923\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37923\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-37923\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_5477-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_5477-copy.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_5477-copy-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_5477-copy-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_5477-copy-678x452.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37923\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Stephen Clark\/Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_37924\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37924\" style=\"width: 678px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-37924\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_5478-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"1017\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_5478-copy.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_5478-copy-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37924\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Stephen Clark\/Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_37925\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37925\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-37925\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_1455-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"777\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_1455-copy.jpg 900w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_1455-copy-300x259.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_1455-copy-768x663.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_1455-copy-678x585.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37925\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Stephen Clark\/Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_37926\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37926\" style=\"width: 678px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-37926\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_5493-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"1017\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_5493-copy.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_5493-copy-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37926\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Stephen Clark\/Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_37927\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37927\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-37927\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_5496-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_5496-copy.jpg 900w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_5496-copy-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_5496-copy-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_5496-copy-678x452.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37927\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Stephen Clark\/Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_37928\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37928\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-37928\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_1467-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_1467-copy.jpg 900w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_1467-copy-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_1467-copy-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_1467-copy-678x509.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_1467-copy-326x245.jpg 326w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/IMG_1467-copy-80x60.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37928\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Stephen Clark\/Spaceflight Now<\/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>SpaceX\u2019s second Falcon Heavy, outfitted to produce more thrust than the heavy-lifter\u2019s debut flight last year, was raised vertical at launch pad 39A in Florida on Wednesday ahead of a launch attempt with the Arabsat 6A communications satellite. The 229-foot-tall (70-meter) rocket rolled out of SpaceX\u2019s hangar at pad 39A, the site at NASA\u2019s Kennedy [&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":[2301,1589,2671,291,678,428,25,1702],"class_list":["post-13248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-a2100","tag-arabsat","tag-arabsat-6a","tag-commercial-space","tag-falcon-heavy","tag-kennedy-space-center","tag-launch","tag-launch-pad-39a"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13248"}],"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=13248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}