{"id":14377,"date":"2017-08-28T21:59:53","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T13:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/photos-spacex-rocket-climbs-into-orbit-from-vandenberg\/"},"modified":"2017-08-28T21:59:53","modified_gmt":"2017-08-28T13:59:53","slug":"photos-spacex-rocket-climbs-into-orbit-from-vandenberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/photos-spacex-rocket-climbs-into-orbit-from-vandenberg\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: SpaceX rocket climbs into orbit from Vandenberg"},"content":{"rendered":"

The launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket Aug. 24 from California delivered Taiwan\u2019s Formosat 5 Earth-imaging satellite to orbit, and the Falcon\u2019s first stage booster returned to landing on a drone ship downrange in the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n

The 229-foot-tall (70-meter) rocket lifted off at 11:51 a.m. PDT (2:51 p.m. EDT; 1851 GMT) from Space Launch Complex 4-East at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.<\/p>\n

These photos released by SpaceX and the U.S. Air Force show the rocket\u2019s launch through a bank of late morning fog, and the gallery includes a shot of the first stage after landing on SpaceX\u2019s barge.<\/p>\n

The first stage soared to a maximum altitude of 153 miles (247 kilometers), the highest apogee achieved by a Falcon 9 booster before returning to an intact landing. The first stage reached a peak velocity of Mach 6.9, a more important measure of the stress the vehicle encountered during re-entry, according to SpaceX chief executive Elon Musk.<\/p>\n

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

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Credit: SpaceX<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Credit: SpaceX<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Credit: U.S. Air Force photo by Michael Peterson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Credit: U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Clayton Wear<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Credit: SpaceX<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket Aug. 24 from California delivered Taiwan\u2019s Formosat 5 Earth-imaging satellite to orbit, and the Falcon\u2019s first stage booster returned to landing on a drone ship downrange in the Pacific Ocean. The 229-foot-tall (70-meter) rocket lifted off at 11:51 a.m. PDT (2:51 p.m. EDT; 1851 GMT) from Space […]<\/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":[291,1573,159,479,3203,2494,993,25],"class_list":["post-14377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-commercial-space","tag-drone-ship","tag-earth-observation","tag-falcon-9","tag-formosat-5","tag-ionosphere","tag-just-read-the-instructions","tag-launch"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14377"}],"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=14377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}