{"id":13782,"date":"2018-05-23T00:25:12","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T16:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/video-falcon-9-lifts-off-with-iridium-and-grace-follow-on-satellites\/"},"modified":"2018-05-23T00:25:12","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T16:25:12","slug":"video-falcon-9-lifts-off-with-iridium-and-grace-follow-on-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/video-falcon-9-lifts-off-with-iridium-and-grace-follow-on-satellites\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Falcon 9 lifts off with Iridium and GRACE-Follow On satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/271359319\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX\u2019s tenth launch of the year took off Tuesday from California\u2019s Central Coast on a unique ridehsare mission to add satellites to Iridium\u2019s communications network and replace two Earth science satellites which ended their observations last year.<\/p>\n<p>The Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Space Launch Complex 4-East at Vandenberg Air Force Base at 12:47:58 p.m. PDT (3:47:58 p.m. EDT; 1947:58 GMT), using a first stage booster first flown Jan. 7 with the U.S. government\u2019s mysterious Zuma mission.<\/p>\n<p>Riding 1.7 million pounds of thrust, the Falcon 9 soared to the south from Vandenberg with five commercial Iridium messaging satellites and two follow-on satellites to the joint U.S.-German Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment.<\/p>\n<p>See our Mission Status Center for details on the flight.<\/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 tenth launch of the year took off Tuesday from California\u2019s Central Coast on a unique ridehsare mission to add satellites to Iridium\u2019s communications network and replace two Earth science satellites which ended their observations last year. The Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Space Launch Complex 4-East at Vandenberg Air Force Base at 12:47:58 [&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":[1657,291,159,479,2957,2947,530,2193],"class_list":["post-13782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-airbus-defense-and-space","tag-commercial-space","tag-earth-observation","tag-falcon-9","tag-gfz","tag-grace-fo","tag-iridium","tag-iridium-next"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13782"}],"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=13782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}