{"id":14508,"date":"2017-06-26T01:22:38","date_gmt":"2017-06-25T17:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/video-falcon-9-rocket-lifts-off-from-vandenberg-lands-in-pacific\/"},"modified":"2017-06-26T01:22:38","modified_gmt":"2017-06-25T17:22:38","slug":"video-falcon-9-rocket-lifts-off-from-vandenberg-lands-in-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/video-falcon-9-rocket-lifts-off-from-vandenberg-lands-in-pacific\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Vandenberg, lands in Pacific"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/223052168?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 rocket lifted off Sunday from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California and carried 10 Iridium communications satellites toward a perch in low Earth orbit, then the launcher\u2019s first stage nailed a landing on a platform positioned in the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>The 229-foot-tall (70-meter) rocket took off at 1:25:14 p.m. PDT (4:25:14 p.m. EDT; 2025:14 GMT) from Space Launch Complex 4-East at Vandenberg. Landing of the first stage occurred less than eight minutes later.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some statistics on Sunday\u2019s launch:<\/p>\n<ul class=\" list-paddingleft-2\">\n<li>37th launch of a Falcon 9 rocket since 2010<\/li>\n<li>42nd launch of Falcon rocket family since 2006<\/li>\n<li>4th Falcon 9 launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base<\/li>\n<li>17th launch of the upgraded Falcon 9<\/li>\n<li>2nd upgraded Falcon 9 launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base<\/li>\n<li>2nd launch for Iridium by SpaceX<\/li>\n<li>24th overall launch with Iridium satellites<\/li>\n<li>4th launch of Thales Alenia Space payloads on Falcon 9<\/li>\n<li>23rd Falcon 9 day launch<\/li>\n<li>9th Falcon 9 launch of 2017<\/li>\n<li>3rd launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in 2017<\/li>\n<li>13th landing of a Falcon 9 first stage<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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 Falcon 9 rocket lifted off Sunday from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California and carried 10 Iridium communications satellites toward a perch in low Earth orbit, then the launcher\u2019s first stage nailed a landing on a platform positioned in the Pacific Ocean. The 229-foot-tall (70-meter) rocket took off at 1:25:14 p.m. PDT (4:25:14 p.m. [&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":[291,1573,479,530,2193,3266,993,25],"class_list":["post-14508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-commercial-space","tag-drone-ship","tag-falcon-9","tag-iridium","tag-iridium-next","tag-iridium-next-mission-2","tag-just-read-the-instructions","tag-launch"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14508"}],"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=14508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}