{"id":13685,"date":"2018-07-23T01:01:16","date_gmt":"2018-07-22T17:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/video-falcon-9-lifts-off-with-telstar-19-vantage\/"},"modified":"2018-07-23T01:01:16","modified_gmt":"2018-07-22T17:01:16","slug":"video-falcon-9-lifts-off-with-telstar-19-vantage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/video-falcon-9-lifts-off-with-telstar-19-vantage\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Falcon 9 lifts off with Telstar 19 VANTAGE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/281124556\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket climbed away from Cape Canaveral early Sunday, and its first stage booster returned to a drone ship parked in the Atlantic Ocean after sending a heavyweight commercial communications satellite toward orbit for Telesat.<\/p>\n<p>The 229-foot-tall (70-meter) rocket lifted off at 1:50 a.m. EDT (0550 GMT) Sunday from Cape Canaveral\u2019s Complex 40 launch pad on SpaceX\u2019s 13th mission of the year.<\/p>\n<p>The Telstar 19 VANTAGE communications satellite was packaged inside the launcher\u2019s nose shroud, kicking off a 15-year mission to serve broadband connectivity across the Americas, stretching from northern Canada to Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>The nearly 15,600-pound (7,075-kilogram) spacecraft is the heaviest commercial communications satellite ever launched.<\/p>\n<p>The Falcon 9 rocket\u2019s first stage detached around two-and-a-half minutes after liftoff, then headed for an on-target touchdown on SpaceX\u2019s drone ship \u201cOf Course I Still Love You\u201d parked in the Atlantic Ocean a few hundred miles east of Cape Canaveral.<\/p>\n<p>The upper stage continued into orbit, and deployed the Telstar 19 VANTAGE spacecraft around 33 minutes into the mission, notching SpaceX\u2019s 31st successful launch in a row.<\/p>\n<p>See our Mission Status Center for details on the launch.<\/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 SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket climbed away from Cape Canaveral early Sunday, and its first stage booster returned to a drone ship parked in the Atlantic Ocean after sending a heavyweight commercial communications satellite toward orbit for Telesat. The 229-foot-tall (70-meter) rocket lifted off at 1:50 a.m. EDT (0550 GMT) Sunday from Cape Canaveral\u2019s Complex [&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":[584,291,1736,479,1428,25,311,2897],"class_list":["post-13685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-canada","tag-commercial-space","tag-complex-40","tag-falcon-9","tag-falcon-9-block-5","tag-launch","tag-reusability","tag-space-systems-loral"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13685"}],"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=13685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}