{"id":13776,"date":"2018-05-25T22:21:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T14:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/video-falcon-9-rocket-ignites-for-hold-down-test-at-cape-canaveral\/"},"modified":"2018-05-25T22:21:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T14:21:00","slug":"video-falcon-9-rocket-ignites-for-hold-down-test-at-cape-canaveral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/video-falcon-9-rocket-ignites-for-hold-down-test-at-cape-canaveral\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Falcon 9 rocket ignites for hold-down test at Cape Canaveral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/271788489\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 rocket ignited its main engines at Cape Canaveral\u2019s Complex 40 launch pad Thursday night, clearing a major hurdle before liftoff May 31 with the SES 12 communications satellite.<\/p>\n<p>The Falcon 9\u2019s nine Merlin 1D main engines ignited at 9:30 p.m. EDT Thursday (0130 GMT Friday) as clamps held the two-stage rocket firmly on the ground. A cloud of exhaust erupted from the base of the rocket before commands were issued to switch off the engines as planned.<\/p>\n<p>The static fire test is a customary milestone in all SpaceX launch campaigns, and the next step ahead of next week\u2019s launch will be the Falcon 9\u2019s return to a nearby hangar for attachment of the SES 12 communications satellite.<\/p>\n<p>Liftoff is scheduled for 12:29 a.m. EDT (0429 GMT) on Thursday, May 31.<\/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>SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 rocket ignited its main engines at Cape Canaveral\u2019s Complex 40 launch pad Thursday night, clearing a major hurdle before liftoff May 31 with the SES 12 communications satellite. The Falcon 9\u2019s nine Merlin 1D main engines ignited at 9:30 p.m. EDT Thursday (0130 GMT Friday) as clamps held the two-stage rocket firmly [&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-13776","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\/13776"}],"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=13776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}