{"id":13759,"date":"2018-06-05T00:12:52","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T16:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/video-falcon-9-soars-into-space-with-ses-12\/"},"modified":"2018-06-05T00:12:52","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T16:12:52","slug":"video-falcon-9-soars-into-space-with-ses-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/video-falcon-9-soars-into-space-with-ses-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Falcon 9 soars into space with SES 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/273264952\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Video credit: SpaceX<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Watch a replay of the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral shortly after midnight Monday with the SES 12 communications satellite.<\/p>\n<p>The 229-foot-tall (70-meter) rocket took off at 12:45 a.m. EDT (0445 GMT) Monday from Cape Canaveral\u2019s Complex 40 launch pad, and headed east over the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>About 32 minutes later, the Falcon 9\u2019s upper stage deployed the Airbus-built SES 12 telecom payload into a \u201csupersynchronous\u201d transfer orbit stretching more than 36,000 miles (58,000 kilometers) above Earth. The satellite\u2019s on-board electric propulsion system will maneuver the craft into a circular geostationary orbit around 22,300 miles (35,800 kilometers) over the equator in the next few months.<\/p>\n<p>Read our full story for details on the mission.<\/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>\ufeff Video credit: SpaceX Watch a replay of the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral shortly after midnight Monday with the SES 12 communications satellite. The 229-foot-tall (70-meter) rocket took off at 12:45 a.m. EDT (0445 GMT) Monday from Cape Canaveral\u2019s Complex 40 launch pad, and headed east over the Atlantic [&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":[1657,2618,291,1736,2940,479,25,1043],"class_list":["post-13759","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\/13759"}],"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=13759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}