{"id":16516,"date":"2015-02-28T17:29:06","date_gmt":"2015-02-28T09:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/photos-satellites-readied-for-tandem-launch-on-falcon-9\/"},"modified":"2015-02-28T17:29:06","modified_gmt":"2015-02-28T09:29:06","slug":"photos-satellites-readied-for-tandem-launch-on-falcon-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/photos-satellites-readied-for-tandem-launch-on-falcon-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Satellites readied for tandem launch on Falcon 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two communications spacecraft built by Boeing and owned by Eutelsat and Asia Broadcast Satellite will ride a Falcon 9 rocket into orbit Sunday, and these pictures show the satellites stacked together and prepared for liftoff from Cape Canaveral.<\/p>\n<p>The images were taken at Boeing\u2019s satellite factory in El Segundo, California, and at SpaceX\u2019s payload processing facility at Cape Canaveral.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4384\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4384\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-4384\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/16401616448_2998a09e35_z.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: Boeing\" width=\"620\" height=\"496\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/16401616448_2998a09e35_z.jpg 640w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/16401616448_2998a09e35_z-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4384\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: Boeing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4385\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4385\" style=\"width: 621px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-4385\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/16402976709_d04e39553f_z.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: Boeing\" width=\"621\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/16402976709_d04e39553f_z.jpg 640w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/16402976709_d04e39553f_z-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 621px) 100vw, 621px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4385\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: Boeing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4386\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4386\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-4386\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/16401814560_f6a51035ba_k.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: Boeing\" width=\"620\" height=\"775\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/16401814560_f6a51035ba_k.jpg 1638w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/16401814560_f6a51035ba_k-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/16401814560_f6a51035ba_k-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/16401814560_f6a51035ba_k-819x1024.jpg 819w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4386\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: Boeing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4387\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4387\" style=\"width: 621px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-4387\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/16402976639_1ea9ffe1c1_z.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: Boeing\" width=\"621\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/16402976639_1ea9ffe1c1_z.jpg 640w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/16402976639_1ea9ffe1c1_z-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 621px) 100vw, 621px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4387\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: Boeing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4388\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4388\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-4388\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/15966671914_fc7758bc95_b.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: SpaceX\" width=\"620\" height=\"930\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/15966671914_fc7758bc95_b.jpg 683w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/15966671914_fc7758bc95_b-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4388\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: SpaceX<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4389\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4389\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-4389\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/16590591822_04a16ff180_o.png\" alt=\"Photo credit: SpaceX\" width=\"620\" height=\"827\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/16590591822_04a16ff180_o.png 480w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/16590591822_04a16ff180_o-225x300.png 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4389\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: SpaceX<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><b><i>Follow Stephen Clark on Twitter: @StephenClark1.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two communications spacecraft built by Boeing and owned by Eutelsat and Asia Broadcast Satellite will ride a Falcon 9 rocket into orbit Sunday, and these pictures show the satellites stacked together and prepared for liftoff from Cape Canaveral. The images were taken at Boeing\u2019s satellite factory in El Segundo, California, and at SpaceX\u2019s payload processing [&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":[3681,4118,670,2135,1424,4119,479,4128],"class_list":["post-16516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-abs","tag-abs-3a","tag-boeing","tag-boeing-702sp","tag-eutelsat","tag-eutelsat-115-west-b","tag-falcon-9","tag-falcon-9-flight-16"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16516"}],"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=16516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}