{"id":13679,"date":"2018-07-25T22:47:24","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T14:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/photos-falcon-9-ready-for-launch-from-california\/"},"modified":"2018-07-25T22:47:24","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T14:47:24","slug":"photos-falcon-9-ready-for-launch-from-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/photos-falcon-9-ready-for-launch-from-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Falcon 9 ready for launch from California"},"content":{"rendered":"

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket loaded with 10 Iridium Next communications satellite is awaiting a predawn launch Wednesday from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.<\/p>\n

The Falcon 9 launcher, flying in SpaceX\u2019s latest \u201cBlock 5\u201d configuration, is set to lift off at 4:39:30 a.m. PDT (7:39:30 a.m. EDT; 1139:30 GMT) from Space Launch Complex 4-East at Vandenberg.<\/p>\n

These photos show the 229-foot-tall (70-meter) rocket standing on its launch pad Tuesday afternoon as photographers set up remote cameras to capture the Falcon 9\u2019s fiery liftoff.<\/p>\n

Wednesday\u2019s launch will be SpaceX\u2019s 14th mission of the year, and the 59th flight of a Falcon 9 rocket overall since June 2010. It will be the 11th SpaceX launch from Vandenberg.<\/p>\n

See our Mission Status Center for details and live coverage of the countdown and launch.<\/p>\n

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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket loaded with 10 Iridium Next communications satellite is awaiting a predawn launch Wednesday from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. The Falcon 9 launcher, flying in SpaceX\u2019s latest \u201cBlock 5\u201d configuration, is set to lift off at 4:39:30 a.m. PDT (7:39:30 a.m. EDT; 1139:30 GMT) from Space Launch Complex 4-East at […]<\/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":[1931,291,1573,479,1428,530,2193,2902],"class_list":["post-13679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-california","tag-commercial-space","tag-drone-ship","tag-falcon-9","tag-falcon-9-block-5","tag-iridium","tag-iridium-next","tag-iridium-next-mission-7"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13679"}],"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=13679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}