{"id":17683,"date":"2020-06-13T18:51:02","date_gmt":"2020-06-13T10:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacex-sends-starlink-and-planet-satellites-to-orbit-in-a-new-kind-of-piggyback-launch\/"},"modified":"2020-06-13T18:51:02","modified_gmt":"2020-06-13T10:51:02","slug":"spacex-sends-starlink-and-planet-satellites-to-orbit-in-a-new-kind-of-piggyback-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacex-sends-starlink-and-planet-satellites-to-orbit-in-a-new-kind-of-piggyback-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX sends Starlink and Planet satellites to orbit in a new kind of piggyback launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"SpaceX Starlink 9 launch &amp; Falcon 9 first stage landing, 13 June 2020\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8bFbT9k36oY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\" data-width=\"800\" data-height=\"450\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px; width: 800px; height: 450px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX today launched dozens more of its Starlink broadband internet satellites, plus three piggyback satellites for Planet \u2014 marking the first of the company\u2019s in-house rideshare deliveries to orbit.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 5:21 a.m. ET (2:21 a.m. PT), just 10 days after the eighth launch of 60 Starlink satellites. This was the first time a Falcon 9 was launched without doing a static-fire test on the pad in advance.<\/li>\n<li>Minutes after launch, the Falcon 9\u2019s first-stage booster landed itself on a drone ship stationed in the Atlantic Ocean. Then the second stage deployed three of Planet\u2019s Skysat high-resolution Earth observation satellites into low Earth orbit, followed by a slightly shorter-than-usual stack of 58 Starlink satellites. Planet is the first customer to make use of SpaceX\u2019s Smallsat Rideshare Program; previous rideshare missions involved intermediaries such as Seattle-based Spaceflight Inc.<\/li>\n<li>The Starlink satellites, built at SpaceX\u2019s facilities in Redmond, Wash., will join about 480 previously launched spacecraft in a constellation designed to provide broadband internet access. The network is already being tested for military applications, and limited commercial service could begin later this year. (You can sign up here for updates about service availability.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX today launched dozens more of its Starlink broadband internet satellites, plus three piggyback satellites for Planet \u2014 marking the first of the company\u2019s in-house rideshare deliveries to orbit. SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 5:21 a.m. ET (2:21 a.m. PT), just 10 days after the [&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":[252,416,20,442,316,440],"class_list":["post-17683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-broadband","tag-planet-labs","tag-satellite","tag-satellites","tag-spacex","tag-starlink"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17683"}],"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=17683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}