{"id":14241,"date":"2017-10-26T21:34:16","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T13:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/video-falcon-9-rocket-completes-static-fire-test-ahead-of-south-korean-satellite-launch\/"},"modified":"2017-10-26T21:34:16","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T13:34:16","slug":"video-falcon-9-rocket-completes-static-fire-test-ahead-of-south-korean-satellite-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/video-falcon-9-rocket-completes-static-fire-test-ahead-of-south-korean-satellite-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Falcon 9 rocket completes static fire test ahead of South Korean satellite launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/240021277\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX\u2019s next Falcon 9 rocket ignited its nine Merlin engines at Kennedy Space Center\u2019s launch pad 39A Thursday in a customary pre-flight test ahead of the company\u2019s next mission, slated for Monday with a commercial South Korean-owned communications satellite.<\/p>\n<p>The Merlin 1D engines fired at 12 p.m. EDT (1600 GMT) Thursday as hold-down restraints kept the two-stage Falcon 9 rocket anchored at pad 39A. Once engineers complete a data review, ground crews will roll the Falcon 9 back to its hangar to meet the Koreasat 5A communications satellite.<\/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 next Falcon 9 rocket ignited its nine Merlin engines at Kennedy Space Center\u2019s launch pad 39A Thursday in a customary pre-flight test ahead of the company\u2019s next mission, slated for Monday with a commercial South Korean-owned communications satellite. The Merlin 1D engines fired at 12 p.m. EDT (1600 GMT) Thursday as hold-down restraints kept [&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-14241","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\/14241"}],"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=14241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}