{"id":14224,"date":"2017-11-06T00:52:02","date_gmt":"2017-11-05T16:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/photos-from-last-weeks-falcon-9-launch-with-koreasat-5a\/"},"modified":"2017-11-06T00:52:02","modified_gmt":"2017-11-05T16:52:02","slug":"photos-from-last-weeks-falcon-9-launch-with-koreasat-5a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/photos-from-last-weeks-falcon-9-launch-with-koreasat-5a\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos from last week\u2019s Falcon 9 launch with Koreasat 5A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Look back on the Oct. 30 launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with this gallery of photos showing the 229-foot-tall (70-meter) launcher lifting off from pad 39A at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>The Falcon 9 booster took off at 3:34 p.m. EDT (1934 GMT) on Oct. 30 with Koreasat 5A, a commercial communications satellite destined to provide television, broadband Internet and other multimedia services from the Middle East to the Asia-Pacific, including Korea and Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Read our full story for details on the mission.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28302\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28302\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28302\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/26280154209_f27ac4a056_k.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"1012\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/26280154209_f27ac4a056_k.jpg 675w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/26280154209_f27ac4a056_k-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28302\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: SpaceX<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28303\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28303\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28303\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Koreasat-5a_015e.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Koreasat-5a_015e.jpg 900w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Koreasat-5a_015e-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Koreasat-5a_015e-768x457.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Koreasat-5a_015e-678x404.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28303\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: James Murati<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28304\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28304\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28304\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/38056455051_12ff4146bb_k.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"1012\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/38056455051_12ff4146bb_k.jpg 675w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/38056455051_12ff4146bb_k-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28304\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: SpaceX<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28305\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28305\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28305\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/26280153539_1639f0e487_k.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"1013\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/26280153539_1639f0e487_k.jpg 675w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/26280153539_1639f0e487_k-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28305\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: SpaceX<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28306\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28306\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28306\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/26280153979_be4db68a2d_k.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"1012\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/26280153979_be4db68a2d_k.jpg 675w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/26280153979_be4db68a2d_k-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28306\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: SpaceX<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28307\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28307\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28307\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/38056454431_706e1e5a68_k.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/38056454431_706e1e5a68_k.jpg 900w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/38056454431_706e1e5a68_k-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/38056454431_706e1e5a68_k-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/38056454431_706e1e5a68_k-678x452.jpg 678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28307\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: SpaceX<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28308\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28308\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28308\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/38056455211_5a5e0f9145_k.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"1013\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/38056455211_5a5e0f9145_k.jpg 675w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/38056455211_5a5e0f9145_k-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28308\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: SpaceX<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28309\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28309\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28309\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Koreasat-5a_033e.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"1013\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Koreasat-5a_033e.jpg 675w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Koreasat-5a_033e-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28309\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: James Murati<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28311\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28311\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28311\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Koreasat-5a_067e.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"1013\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Koreasat-5a_067e.jpg 675w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Koreasat-5a_067e-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28311\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: James Murati<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28312\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28312\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28312\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Koreasat-5a_108e.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"1013\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Koreasat-5a_108e.jpg 675w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Koreasat-5a_108e-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28312\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: James Murati<\/figcaption><\/figure>\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>Look back on the Oct. 30 launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with this gallery of photos showing the 229-foot-tall (70-meter) launcher lifting off from pad 39A at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Falcon 9 booster took off at 3:34 p.m. EDT (1934 GMT) on Oct. 30 with Koreasat 5A, a commercial [&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":[291,479,428,3137,3138,1702,193,2376],"class_list":["post-14224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-commercial-space","tag-falcon-9","tag-kennedy-space-center","tag-koreasat-5a","tag-ktsat","tag-launch-pad-39a","tag-south-korea","tag-spacebus-4000b2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14224"}],"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=14224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}