{"id":13471,"date":"2018-12-04T00:31:28","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T16:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/photos-twice-flown-falcon-9-rocket-prepared-for-third-mission\/"},"modified":"2018-12-04T00:31:28","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T16:31:28","slug":"photos-twice-flown-falcon-9-rocket-prepared-for-third-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/photos-twice-flown-falcon-9-rocket-prepared-for-third-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Twice-flown Falcon 9 rocket prepared for third mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX is readying a Falcon 9 rocket booster for launch Monday at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, on a record-setting mission with 64 smallsats on-board that will also mark the launch provider\u2019s first use of the same first stage for a third flight.<\/p>\n<p>The 229-foot-tall (70-meter) rocket is set for liftoff at 10:31:47 a.m. PST (1:31:47 p.m. EST; 1831:47 GMT) from Space Launch Complex 4-East at Vandenberg, and the first stage will return to a drone ship landing in the Pacific Ocean around 30 miles (50 kilometers) offshore from the military-run spaceport.<\/p>\n<p>The Falcon 9\u2019s first stage set to launch on Monday\u2019s rideshare multi-payload mission has launched two previous times \u2014 on May 11 from the Kennedy Space Center with Bangladesh\u2019s Bangabandhu 1 communications satellite, and on Aug. 7 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station with the Indonesian Merah Putih comsat. The booster will have launched from all three of SpaceX\u2019s active launch pads with Monday\u2019s flight.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX rolled out the rocket, exhibiting soot and scars from its two previous fiery flights to the edge of space and back, to the launch pad over the weekend in preparation for liftoff.<\/p>\n<p>Read our earlier story for details on the mission.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_35805\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35805\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-35805\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/DtWLGqPU4AALMJz-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/DtWLGqPU4AALMJz-2.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/DtWLGqPU4AALMJz-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/DtWLGqPU4AALMJz-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/DtWLGqPU4AALMJz-2-678x452.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-35805\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: SpaceX<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_35806\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35806\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-35806\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/DtWLH5MU4AEgc5p-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/DtWLH5MU4AEgc5p-2.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/DtWLH5MU4AEgc5p-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/DtWLH5MU4AEgc5p-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/DtWLH5MU4AEgc5p-2-678x452.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-35806\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: SpaceX<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_35800\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35800\" style=\"width: 921px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-35800\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/f9_ssoavert.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"921\" height=\"614\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/f9_ssoavert.jpg 921w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/f9_ssoavert-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/f9_ssoavert-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/f9_ssoavert-678x452.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 921px) 100vw, 921px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-35800\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: SpaceX<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_35736\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35736\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-35736\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/f9_ssoa_pre2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/f9_ssoa_pre2.jpg 900w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/f9_ssoa_pre2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/f9_ssoa_pre2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/f9_ssoa_pre2-678x452.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-35736\" 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>SpaceX is readying a Falcon 9 rocket booster for launch Monday at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, on a record-setting mission with 64 smallsats on-board that will also mark the launch provider\u2019s first use of the same first stage for a third flight. The 229-foot-tall (70-meter) rocket is set for liftoff at 10:31:47 a.m. PST [&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":[2812,291,479,1428,25,311,1208,1574],"class_list":["post-13471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-b1046","tag-commercial-space","tag-falcon-9","tag-falcon-9-block-5","tag-launch","tag-reusability","tag-rideshare","tag-space-launch-complex-4-east"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13471"}],"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=13471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}