{"id":13907,"date":"2018-03-30T19:48:26","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T11:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/photos-falcon-9-rocket-stands-vertical-at-vandenberg\/"},"modified":"2018-03-30T19:48:26","modified_gmt":"2018-03-30T11:48:26","slug":"photos-falcon-9-rocket-stands-vertical-at-vandenberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/photos-falcon-9-rocket-stands-vertical-at-vandenberg\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Falcon 9 rocket stands vertical at Vandenberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket set to loft the fifth batch of Iridium Next mobile communications satellites stands vertical on Space Launch Complex 4-East at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.<\/p>\n<p>The two-stage rocket, towering 229 feet (70 meters) tall, is set for liftoff at 7:13:51 a.m. PDT (10:13:51 a.m. EDT; 1413:51 GMT) Friday with 10 Iridium Next spacecraft on-board.<\/p>\n<p>The Falcon 9\u2019s first stage previously flew in October 2017 with an earlier set of Iridium Next satellites.<\/p>\n<p>These photos of the Falcon 9 rocket, backdropped by a marine fog layer over the Pacific Ocean, were taken as photographers set up remote cameras near the launch pad Thursday.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_31279\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31279\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31279\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/SX-PREP-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"594\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/SX-PREP-1.jpg 720w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/SX-PREP-1-300x248.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/SX-PREP-1-678x559.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31279\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Gene Blevins\/LA Daily News<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_31282\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31282\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31282\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/SX-PREP-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/SX-PREP-3.jpg 720w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/SX-PREP-3-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/SX-PREP-3-678x357.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31282\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Gene Blevins\/LA Daily News<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_31283\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31283\" style=\"width: 571px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31283\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/SX-PREP-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"571\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/SX-PREP-4.jpg 571w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/SX-PREP-4-238x300.jpg 238w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 571px) 100vw, 571px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31283\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Gene Blevins\/LA Daily News<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_31284\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31284\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31284\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/SX-PREP-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/SX-PREP-5.jpg 720w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/SX-PREP-5-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/SX-PREP-5-678x466.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31284\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Gene Blevins\/LA Daily News<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_31285\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31285\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31285\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/SX-PREP-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"676\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/SX-PREP-6.jpg 720w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/SX-PREP-6-300x282.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/SX-PREP-6-678x637.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31285\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Gene Blevins\/LA Daily News<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_31286\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31286\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31286\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/SX-PREP-8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"688\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/SX-PREP-8.jpg 720w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/SX-PREP-8-300x287.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/SX-PREP-8-678x648.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31286\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Gene Blevins\/LA Daily News<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_31287\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31287\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31287\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/SX-PREP-9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/SX-PREP-9.jpg 720w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/SX-PREP-9-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/SX-PREP-9-678x460.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31287\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Gene Blevins\/LA Daily News<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_31288\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31288\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31288\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/SX-PREP-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/SX-PREP-11.jpg 625w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/SX-PREP-11-260x300.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31288\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Gene Blevins\/LA Daily News<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket set to loft the fifth batch of Iridium Next mobile communications satellites stands vertical on Space Launch Complex 4-East at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. The two-stage rocket, towering 229 feet (70 meters) tall, is set for liftoff at 7:13:51 a.m. PDT (10:13:51 a.m. EDT; 1413:51 GMT) Friday with 10 [&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":[291,479,530,2193,3003,25,2899,311],"class_list":["post-13907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-commercial-space","tag-falcon-9","tag-iridium","tag-iridium-next","tag-iridium-next-mission-5","tag-launch","tag-orbital-atk","tag-reusability"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13907"}],"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=13907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}