{"id":15697,"date":"2016-03-01T00:30:01","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T16:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/photos-falcon-9-awaits-liftoff\/"},"modified":"2016-03-01T00:30:01","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T16:30:01","slug":"photos-falcon-9-awaits-liftoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/photos-falcon-9-awaits-liftoff\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Falcon 9 awaits liftoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 rocket is awaiting liftoff from Cape Canaveral\u2019s Complex 40 launch pad as soon as Tuesday after three scrubs caused by propellant loading problems and a boat that strayed into restricted waters in the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>These photos from the past few days show the 229-foot-tall rocket on the launch pad, crowned by the SES 9 communications satellite for Luxembourg-based SES. The 11,620-pound (5,271-kilogram) satellite will serve broadcast and telecom markets in the Asia-Pacific.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo credit:<b>&nbsp;Walter Scriptunas II \/&nbsp;Scriptunas Images<\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12986\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Scriptunas-9570.jpg\" alt=\"Scriptunas-9570\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Scriptunas-9570.jpg 620w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Scriptunas-9570-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12987\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Scriptunas-9569.jpg\" alt=\"Scriptunas-9569\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Scriptunas-9569.jpg 620w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Scriptunas-9569-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12988\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Scriptunas-9558.jpg\" alt=\"Scriptunas-9558\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Scriptunas-9558.jpg 620w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Scriptunas-9558-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12989\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Scriptunas-3971.jpg\" alt=\"Scriptunas-3971\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Scriptunas-3971.jpg 620w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Scriptunas-3971-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12990\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Scriptunas-3944.jpg\" alt=\"Scriptunas-3944\" width=\"620\" height=\"443\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Scriptunas-3944.jpg 620w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Scriptunas-3944-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12991\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Scriptunas-4977.jpg\" alt=\"Scriptunas-4977\" width=\"620\" height=\"930\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Scriptunas-4977.jpg 620w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Scriptunas-4977-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12992\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Scriptunas-4972.jpg\" alt=\"Scriptunas-4972\" width=\"620\" height=\"930\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Scriptunas-4972.jpg 620w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Scriptunas-4972-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12993\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Scriptunas-4962.jpg\" alt=\"Scriptunas-4962\" width=\"620\" height=\"930\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Scriptunas-4962.jpg 620w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Scriptunas-4962-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12994\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Scriptunas-4085.jpg\" alt=\"Scriptunas-4085\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Scriptunas-4085.jpg 620w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Scriptunas-4085-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12995\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Scriptunas-4039.jpg\" alt=\"Scriptunas-4039\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Scriptunas-4039.jpg 620w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Scriptunas-4039-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><\/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 Falcon 9 rocket is awaiting liftoff from Cape Canaveral\u2019s Complex 40 launch pad as soon as Tuesday after three scrubs caused by propellant loading problems and a boat that strayed into restricted waters in the Atlantic Ocean. These photos from the past few days show the 229-foot-tall rocket on the launch pad, crowned by [&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":[670,3294,1736,479,1043,3787,316,1611],"class_list":["post-15697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-boeing","tag-boeing-702hp","tag-complex-40","tag-falcon-9","tag-ses","tag-ses-9","tag-spacex","tag-telecom"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15697"}],"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=15697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}