{"id":13794,"date":"2018-05-19T00:48:04","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T16:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/photos-bangabandhu-1-launched-by-upgraded-falcon-9-rocket\/"},"modified":"2018-05-19T00:48:04","modified_gmt":"2018-05-18T16:48:04","slug":"photos-bangabandhu-1-launched-by-upgraded-falcon-9-rocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/photos-bangabandhu-1-launched-by-upgraded-falcon-9-rocket\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Bangabandhu 1 launched by upgraded Falcon 9 rocket"},"content":{"rendered":"

SpaceX\u2019s upgraded Falcon 9 rocket debuted May 11 with a successful launch from NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida carrying the Bangabandhu 1 communications satellite.<\/p>\n

The Falcon 9 Block 5 launcher lifted off from pad 39A at 4:14 p.m. EDT (2014 GMT) on May 11 to mark SpaceX\u2019s ninth mission of the year.<\/p>\n

The \u201cBlock 5\u201d upgrade is the same version of the Falcon 9 rocket that SpaceX will use to launch astronauts under NASA\u2019s commercial crew program.<\/p>\n

These images show the Falcon 9 rocket blasting off from Florida\u2019s Space Coast, and the first stage\u2019s touchdown on a SpaceX drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n

Read our full story for details on the mission.<\/p>\n

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SpaceX\u2019s upgraded Falcon 9 rocket debuted May 11 with a successful launch from NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida carrying the Bangabandhu 1 communications satellite. The Falcon 9 Block 5 launcher lifted off from pad 39A at 4:14 p.m. EDT (2014 GMT) on May 11 to mark SpaceX\u2019s ninth mission of the year. The \u201cBlock […]<\/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":[2953,2963,524,291,235,1573,479,1428],"class_list":["post-13794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-bangabandhu-1","tag-bangladesh","tag-commercial-crew","tag-commercial-space","tag-crew-dragon","tag-drone-ship","tag-falcon-9","tag-falcon-9-block-5"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13794"}],"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=13794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}