{"id":13756,"date":"2018-06-06T01:08:04","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T17:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/photos-spacex-successful-in-nighttime-blastoff-from-cape-canaveral\/"},"modified":"2018-06-06T01:08:04","modified_gmt":"2018-06-05T17:08:04","slug":"photos-spacex-successful-in-nighttime-blastoff-from-cape-canaveral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/photos-spacex-successful-in-nighttime-blastoff-from-cape-canaveral\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: SpaceX successful in nighttime blastoff from Cape Canaveral"},"content":{"rendered":"

Photos from the liftoff of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket early Monday from Cape Canaveral show the 20-story launcher climbing into a starry sky with the SES 12 communications satellite.<\/p>\n

The two-stage rocket, powered by a reused booster with nine Merlin main engines, lifted off at 12:45 a.m. EDT (0445 GMT) Monday from Cape Canaveral\u2019s Complex 40 launch pad.<\/p>\n

Around 32 minutes later, the Falcon 9\u2019s second stage deployed the Airbus-built SES 12 communications craft into an orbit stretching more than 36,000 miles (58,000 kilometers) above Earth, en route to a final operating post over the equator in geostationary orbit.<\/p>\n

Monday\u2019s mission marked the 11th SpaceX launch of the year. The next Falcon 9 launch is scheduled from Cape Canaveral on June 29 with a Dragon supply ship for the International Space Station.<\/p>\n

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Photos from the liftoff of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket early Monday from Cape Canaveral show the 20-story launcher climbing into a starry sky with the SES 12 communications satellite. The two-stage rocket, powered by a reused booster with nine Merlin main engines, lifted off at 12:45 a.m. EDT (0445 GMT) Monday from Cape Canaveral\u2019s […]<\/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":[1657,2618,291,1736,2940,479,25,1043],"class_list":["post-13756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-airbus-defense-and-space","tag-all-electric-propulsion","tag-commercial-space","tag-complex-40","tag-eurostar-e3000e","tag-falcon-9","tag-launch","tag-ses"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13756"}],"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=13756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}