{"id":13657,"date":"2018-08-09T22:16:33","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T14:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/photos-previously-flown-falcon-9-rocket-blasts-off-with-merah-putih-satellite\/"},"modified":"2018-08-09T22:16:33","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T14:16:33","slug":"photos-previously-flown-falcon-9-rocket-blasts-off-with-merah-putih-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/photos-previously-flown-falcon-9-rocket-blasts-off-with-merah-putih-satellite\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Previously-flown Falcon 9 rocket blasts off with Merah Putih satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Falcon 9 rocket booster which first flew in May took off for the second time Tuesday from Cape Canaveral carrying the Indonesian Merah Putih communications satellite.<\/p>\n<p>The 229-foot-tall (70-meter) launcher lifted off from Cape Canaveral\u2019s Complex 40 launch pad at 1:18 a.m. EDT (0518 GMT) Tuesday on SpaceX\u2019s 15th mission of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Turning toward the east from Florida\u2019s Space Coast atop 1.7 million pounds of thrust, the Falcon 9 climbed into orbit for deployment of the Merah Putih communications satellite for Telkom Indonesia. The roughly 12,800-pound (5,800 kilogram) spacecraft, built by SSL of Palo Alto, California, will provide C-band communications services over Indonesia, India and other parts of Southeast and South Asia.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. military satellite tracking data indicated the Falcon 9 released the Merah Putih spacecraft in an elliptical transfer orbit ranging between approximately 120 miles (200 kilometers) and 18,330 miles (29,500 kilometers) in altitude, with an inclination of 27.1 degrees.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201csub-synchronous\u201d transfer orbit \u2014 the intended target for Tuesday\u2019s mission \u2014 puts Merah Putih below its intended operational altitude. The satellite will use its on-board engine to make up the altitude shortfall.<\/p>\n<p>All photos: SpaceX.<\/p>\n<p>Read our full story on the mission.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-33811\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/43006330655_f0e653b6d6_k-678x1017.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"1017\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/43006330655_f0e653b6d6_k.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/43006330655_f0e653b6d6_k-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-33813\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/43006334045_debc4e382f_k-678x1017.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"1017\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/43006334045_debc4e382f_k.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/43006334045_debc4e382f_k-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-33815\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/30041972208_59b4d0c268_k-678x452.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/30041972208_59b4d0c268_k.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/30041972208_59b4d0c268_k-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-33814\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/28974335747_00ae7a2bb2_k-678x1017.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"1017\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/28974335747_00ae7a2bb2_k.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/28974335747_00ae7a2bb2_k-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\"><\/p>\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>A Falcon 9 rocket booster which first flew in May took off for the second time Tuesday from Cape Canaveral carrying the Indonesian Merah Putih communications satellite. The 229-foot-tall (70-meter) launcher lifted off from Cape Canaveral\u2019s Complex 40 launch pad at 1:18 a.m. EDT (0518 GMT) Tuesday on SpaceX\u2019s 15th mission of the year. Turning [&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":[291,1736,479,1428,2266,25,2894,311],"class_list":["post-13657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-commercial-space","tag-complex-40","tag-falcon-9","tag-falcon-9-block-5","tag-indonesia","tag-launch","tag-merah-putih","tag-reusability"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13657"}],"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=13657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}