{"id":13463,"date":"2018-12-05T22:11:15","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T14:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/photos-falcon-9-poised-for-launch-at-pad-40\/"},"modified":"2018-12-05T22:11:15","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T14:11:15","slug":"photos-falcon-9-poised-for-launch-at-pad-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/photos-falcon-9-poised-for-launch-at-pad-40\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Falcon 9 poised for launch at pad 40"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 rocket was poised for launch Wednesday at Cape Canaveral\u2019s Complex 40 launch pad carrying more than 5,600 pounds of supplies and experiments to the International Space Station.<\/p>\n<p>The 213-foot-tall (65-meter) rocket is set for liftoff at 1:16 p.m. EST (1816 GMT) with a Dragon supply ship loaded with a NASA-sponsored instrument to study Earth\u2019s forests from the space station, a tech demo payload to simulate satellite refueling in orbit, and numerous biological research experiments. The cargo also includes food, clothing and spare parts for the station and its six-person crew.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday\u2019s launch will mark SpaceX\u2019s 20th flight of the year, and the 65th launch of a Falcon 9 rocket since the first version of SpaceX\u2019s workhorse launcher debuted in June 2010. It will also be the 19th launch from Cape Canaveral or Kennedy Space Center this year.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_35862\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35862\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-35862\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/f9_crs16_pre1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/f9_crs16_pre1.jpg 720w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/f9_crs16_pre1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/f9_crs16_pre1-678x452.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-35862\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: SpaceX<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_35872\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35872\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-35872\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_1707.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_1707.jpeg 900w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_1707-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_1707-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_1707-678x452.jpeg 678w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-35872\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Steven Young\/Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_35873\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35873\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-35873\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_1722.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_1722.jpeg 900w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_1722-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_1722-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_1722-678x452.jpeg 678w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-35873\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Steven Young\/Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_35874\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35874\" style=\"width: 678px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-35874\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_1737.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"1017\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_1737.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_1737-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-35874\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Steven Young\/Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_35875\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35875\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-35875\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_1754.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_1754.jpg 900w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_1754-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_1754-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_1754-678x452.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-35875\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Steven Young\/Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_35876\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35876\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-35876\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_1776.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_1776.jpg 900w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_1776-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_1776-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/IMG_1776-678x452.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-35876\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Steven Young\/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 Falcon 9 rocket was poised for launch Wednesday at Cape Canaveral\u2019s Complex 40 launch pad carrying more than 5,600 pounds of supplies and experiments to the International Space Station. The 213-foot-tall (65-meter) rocket is set for liftoff at 1:16 p.m. EST (1816 GMT) with a Dragon supply ship loaded with a NASA-sponsored instrument to [&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":[291,1736,1395,159,479,1428,2808,717],"class_list":["post-13463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-commercial-space","tag-complex-40","tag-dragon","tag-earth-observation","tag-falcon-9","tag-falcon-9-block-5","tag-gedi","tag-international-space-station"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13463"}],"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=13463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}