{"id":13604,"date":"2018-09-12T01:56:35","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T17:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/photos-falcon-9-rocket-blasts-off-with-telstar-18-vantage-comsat\/"},"modified":"2018-09-12T01:56:35","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T17:56:35","slug":"photos-falcon-9-rocket-blasts-off-with-telstar-18-vantage-comsat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/photos-falcon-9-rocket-blasts-off-with-telstar-18-vantage-comsat\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Falcon 9 rocket blasts off with Telstar 18 VANTAGE comsat"},"content":{"rendered":"

SpaceX launched its 16th mission of the year early Monday, lighting up a nighttime sky with a Falcon 9 rocket to deliver a Canadian-owned commercial communications satellite to orbit.<\/p>\n

The 229-foot-tall (70-meter) Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral\u2019s Complex 40 launch pad at 12:45 a.m. EDT (0445 GMT) after a weather delay to allow thunderstorms to pass through the Florida spaceport.<\/p>\n

Firing east over the Atlantic Ocean, the Falcon 9\u2019s Merlin main engines throttled up to full power \u2014 1.7 million pounds of thrust \u2014 to send the hefty Telstar 18 VANTAGE communications satellite into orbit at the start of a 15-year mission to beam broadband and television signals over the Asia-Pacific region.<\/p>\n

Read our full story for details on the mission. Photos of the launch are posted below.<\/p>\n

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Follow Stephen Clark on Twitter: @StephenClark1.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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