{"id":14493,"date":"2017-06-30T22:18:32","date_gmt":"2017-06-30T14:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/video-spacex-conducts-falcon-9-static-fire-at-dusk\/"},"modified":"2017-06-30T22:18:32","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T14:18:32","slug":"video-spacex-conducts-falcon-9-static-fire-at-dusk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/video-spacex-conducts-falcon-9-static-fire-at-dusk\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: SpaceX conducts Falcon 9 static fire at dusk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/223705987?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX fueled its next Falcon 9 rocket at launch pad 39A and ignited the booster\u2019s nine Merlin engines at sunset Thursday, passing a major step in the launch campaign leading up to liftoff of the Intelsat 35e communications satellite Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The rare evening hotfire test occurred at 8:30 p.m. EDT Thursday (0030 GMT Friday), with the Merlin 1D engines firing for around seven seconds while the two-stage rocket \u2014 without its satellite payload \u2014 was restrained by hold-down clamps at pad 39A.<\/p>\n<p>The static fire came six days after SpaceX\u2019s last launch from pad 39A, a record turnaround for the historic launch complex at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Liftoff with the Intelsat 35e satellite is scheduled for 7:36 p.m. EDT (2336 GMT) Sunday at the opening of a 58-minute launch window.<\/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 fueled its next Falcon 9 rocket at launch pad 39A and ignited the booster\u2019s nine Merlin engines at sunset Thursday, passing a major step in the launch campaign leading up to liftoff of the Intelsat 35e communications satellite Sunday. The rare evening hotfire test occurred at 8:30 p.m. EDT Thursday (0030 GMT Friday), with [&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":[670,1628,291,479,1255,3249,2293,428],"class_list":["post-14493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-boeing","tag-boeing-702mp","tag-commercial-space","tag-falcon-9","tag-intelsat","tag-intelsat-35e","tag-intelsat-epic","tag-kennedy-space-center"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14493"}],"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=14493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}