{"id":14794,"date":"2017-03-17T22:46:50","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T14:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/photos-falcon-9-flies-off-pad-39a\/"},"modified":"2017-03-17T22:46:50","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T14:46:50","slug":"photos-falcon-9-flies-off-pad-39a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/photos-falcon-9-flies-off-pad-39a\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Falcon 9 flies off pad 39A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Climbing into a clear night sky, a Falcon 9 rocket soared into space early Thursday with the EchoStar 23 commercial communications satellite from launch pad 39A at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>The 229-foot-tall (70-meter) booster took off at 2 a.m. EDT (0600 GMT) after delays caused by high winds. The U.S.-built, U.S.-owned EchoStar 23 spacecraft will provide direct-to-home television broadcasts to Brazilian customers for EchoStar Satellite Services of Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>The launch was the second Falcon 9 to fly from the historic launch pad 39A, the former home of Saturn 5 and space shuttle takeoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Read our full story for details.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_23079\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23079\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-23079\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/33094073720_05dc4f5e22_k.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"1013\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/33094073720_05dc4f5e22_k.jpg 800w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/33094073720_05dc4f5e22_k-200x300.jpg 200w, 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https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/32626053254_a6f5ce68cd_k-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/32626053254_a6f5ce68cd_k-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23081\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: SpaceX<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_23082\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23082\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-23082\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/33094072690_76ab55623e_k.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"1013\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/33094072690_76ab55623e_k.jpg 800w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/33094072690_76ab55623e_k-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/33094072690_76ab55623e_k-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/33094072690_76ab55623e_k-683x1024.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23082\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: SpaceX<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_23083\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23083\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-23083\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/33094074350_5abae5674c_k.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/33094074350_5abae5674c_k.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/33094074350_5abae5674c_k-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/33094074350_5abae5674c_k-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/33094074350_5abae5674c_k-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23083\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: SpaceX<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_23084\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23084\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-23084\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/32654665263_4256d6dcb6_k.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/32654665263_4256d6dcb6_k.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/32654665263_4256d6dcb6_k-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/32654665263_4256d6dcb6_k-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/32654665263_4256d6dcb6_k-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23084\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: SpaceX<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_23085\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23085\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-23085\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/32654666113_26d09b05a3_k1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/32654666113_26d09b05a3_k1.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/32654666113_26d09b05a3_k1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/32654666113_26d09b05a3_k1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/32654666113_26d09b05a3_k1-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23085\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: SpaceX<\/figcaption><\/figure>\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>Climbing into a clear night sky, a Falcon 9 rocket soared into space early Thursday with the EchoStar 23 commercial communications satellite from launch pad 39A at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The 229-foot-tall (70-meter) booster took off at 2 a.m. EDT (0600 GMT) after delays caused by high winds. The U.S.-built, U.S.-owned EchoStar [&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":[1819,3156,3311,479,428,1702,2897,316],"class_list":["post-14794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-brazil","tag-echostar","tag-echostar-23","tag-falcon-9","tag-kennedy-space-center","tag-launch-pad-39a","tag-space-systems-loral","tag-spacex"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14794"}],"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=14794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}