{"id":14370,"date":"2017-08-31T18:46:49","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T10:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/video-spacex-rocket-runs-through-hotfire-test-at-pad-39a\/"},"modified":"2017-08-31T18:46:49","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T10:46:49","slug":"video-spacex-rocket-runs-through-hotfire-test-at-pad-39a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/video-spacex-rocket-runs-through-hotfire-test-at-pad-39a\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: SpaceX rocket runs through hotfire test at pad 39A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/231936599?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX\u2019s next Falcon 9 rocket ignited its Merlin main engines for several seconds Thursday at Kennedy Space Center\u2019s pad 39A ahead of a planned launch next week.<\/p>\n<p>The Merlin 1D engines fired at 4:30 p.m. EDT (2030 GMT), sending a plume of exhaust out the flame trench to the north of pad 39A.<\/p>\n<p>Liftoff is scheduled for Sept. 7 with the U.S. Air Force\u2019s X-37B spaceplane, a robotic, automated mini-shuttle designed for secret experiments in orbit. The Falcon 9 will return to SpaceX\u2019s hangar at pad 39A this weekend for attachment of the military payload.<\/p>\n<p>Officials have not released a launch window for Sept. 7.<\/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 Merlin main engines for several seconds Thursday at Kennedy Space Center\u2019s pad 39A ahead of a planned launch next week. The Merlin 1D engines fired at 4:30 p.m. EDT (2030 GMT), sending a plume of exhaust out the flame trench to the north of pad 39A. Liftoff is [&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":[670,291,479,428,1702,2464,311,316],"class_list":["post-14370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-boeing","tag-commercial-space","tag-falcon-9","tag-kennedy-space-center","tag-launch-pad-39a","tag-otv-5","tag-reusability","tag-spacex"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14370"}],"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=14370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}