{"id":16561,"date":"2015-02-12T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/photos-falcon-9-soars-into-space-at-sunset\/"},"modified":"2015-02-12T18:30:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T10:30:00","slug":"photos-falcon-9-soars-into-space-at-sunset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/photos-falcon-9-soars-into-space-at-sunset\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Falcon 9 soars into space at sunset"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 rocket took off from Cape Canaveral on its 15th flight just before sunset Wednesday, putting on a spectacular sky show en route to space with a NOAA satellite to measure the solar wind.<\/p>\n<p>The 224-foot-tall booster launched at 6:03 p.m. EST (2303 GMT) from Cape Canaveral\u2019s Complex 40 launch pad, pitched east-northeast from the Florida coastline, and released the Deep Space Climate Observatory for a million-mile, 110-day journey to the L1 Lagrange point.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3967\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3967\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3967\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/16324030609_e62d6e1998_k.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: NASA\/Tony Gray and Tim Powers\" width=\"620\" height=\"932\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/16324030609_e62d6e1998_k.jpg 620w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/16324030609_e62d6e1998_k-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3967\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: NASA\/Tony Gray and Tim Powers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3968\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3968\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3968\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/panorama1_-_copy_3.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: SpaceX\" width=\"620\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/panorama1_-_copy_3.jpg 620w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/panorama1_-_copy_3-300x108.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3968\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: SpaceX<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3969\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3969\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3969\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/southtowerhorizontal.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: SpaceX\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/southtowerhorizontal.jpg 620w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/southtowerhorizontal-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3969\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: SpaceX<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3970\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3970\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3970\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/16318197250_744f816708_z-2.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: NASA\/Kim Shiflett\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/16318197250_744f816708_z-2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/16318197250_744f816708_z-2-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3970\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: NASA\/Kim Shiflett<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3971\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3971\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3971\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/16509282782_500d6a57bb_k.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: NASA\/Tony Gray and Tim Powers\" width=\"620\" height=\"932\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/16509282782_500d6a57bb_k.jpg 620w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/16509282782_500d6a57bb_k-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3971\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: NASA\/Tony Gray and Tim Powers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3972\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3972\" style=\"width: 621px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3972\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/b9961ca6-f42a-49c3-b826-36a7a91c8b8b_640x4271.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: SpaceX\" width=\"621\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/b9961ca6-f42a-49c3-b826-36a7a91c8b8b_640x4271.jpg 640w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/b9961ca6-f42a-49c3-b826-36a7a91c8b8b_640x4271-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 621px) 100vw, 621px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3972\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: SpaceX<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3973\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3973\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-3973\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/16322844880_5d57ab06a0_z.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: NASA\/Tony Gray and Tim Powers\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/16322844880_5d57ab06a0_z.jpg 640w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/16322844880_5d57ab06a0_z-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3973\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: NASA\/Tony Gray and Tim Powers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3974\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3974\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3974\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/16318394040_079dcb219e_k.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: NASA\/Tony Gray and Tim Powers\" width=\"620\" height=\"932\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/16318394040_079dcb219e_k.jpg 620w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/16318394040_079dcb219e_k-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3974\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: NASA\/Tony Gray and Tim Powers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3975\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3975\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3975\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/f9f15_launch1-copy.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: Stephen Clark\/Spaceflight Now\" width=\"620\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/f9f15_launch1-copy.jpg 620w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/f9f15_launch1-copy-300x205.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3975\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: Stephen Clark\/Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3976\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3976\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3976\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/streak39a_-_copy.jpg\" alt=\"Photo credit: SpaceX\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/streak39a_-_copy.jpg 620w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/streak39a_-_copy-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3976\" 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>SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 rocket took off from Cape Canaveral on its 15th flight just before sunset Wednesday, putting on a spectacular sky show en route to space with a NOAA satellite to measure the solar wind. The 224-foot-tall booster launched at 6:03 p.m. EST (2303 GMT) from Cape Canaveral\u2019s Complex 40 launch pad, pitched east-northeast [&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":[2308,479,4139,1542,316],"class_list":["post-16561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-dscovr","tag-falcon-9","tag-falcon-9-flight-15","tag-space-launch-complex-40","tag-spacex"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16561"}],"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=16561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}