{"id":13691,"date":"2018-07-19T20:22:42","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T12:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/video-spacex-rocket-lights-engines-in-pre-flight-test\/"},"modified":"2018-07-19T20:22:42","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T12:22:42","slug":"video-spacex-rocket-lights-engines-in-pre-flight-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/video-spacex-rocket-lights-engines-in-pre-flight-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: SpaceX rocket lights engines in pre-flight test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/280621864\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Video credit: Steven Young\/Spaceflight Now<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Passing a major pre-flight milestone ahead of a launch and landing planned early Sunday, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket ignited its main engines Wednesday for a hold-down firing at Cape Canaveral.<\/p>\n<p>The static fire test occurred at 5 p.m. EDT (2100 GMT) on Cape Canaveral\u2019s Complex 40 launch pad, with the rocket\u2019s satellite payload attached.<\/p>\n<p>The next step in launch preparations will be to return the Falcon 9 rocket to its horizontal assembly building for mating with the Telstar 19 VANTAGE communications satellite, a U.S.-built, Canadian-owned craft set to begin a 15-year mission beaming broadband services across the Americas and the Atlantic.<\/p>\n<p>Liftoff is set for 1:50 a.m. EDT (0550 GMT) Sunday at the opening of a four-hour launch window. It will be SpaceX\u2019s 13th launch of the year, and the second flight of the company\u2019s upgraded Falcon 9 Block 5 vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Read our full story for details on the static fire test.<\/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>Video credit: Steven Young\/Spaceflight Now Passing a major pre-flight milestone ahead of a launch and landing planned early Sunday, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket ignited its main engines Wednesday for a hold-down firing at Cape Canaveral. The static fire test occurred at 5 p.m. EDT (2100 GMT) on Cape Canaveral\u2019s Complex 40 launch pad, with [&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":[291,1736,479,1428,25,311,2897,316],"class_list":["post-13691","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-launch","tag-reusability","tag-space-systems-loral","tag-spacex"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13691"}],"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=13691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}