{"id":17765,"date":"2020-03-18T21:01:06","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T13:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacex-sends-sixth-batch-of-60-starlink-satellites-into-orbit-and-marks-milestone-for-rocket-reusability\/"},"modified":"2020-03-18T21:01:06","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T13:01:06","slug":"spacex-sends-sixth-batch-of-60-starlink-satellites-into-orbit-and-marks-milestone-for-rocket-reusability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacex-sends-sixth-batch-of-60-starlink-satellites-into-orbit-and-marks-milestone-for-rocket-reusability\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX sends sixth batch of 60 Starlink satellites into orbit and marks milestone for rocket reusability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"SpaceX Starlink 6 launch &amp; Falcon 9 first stage attempted landing, 18 March 2020\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uqZxLnAzMf0?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>A&nbsp; Falcon 9 rocket sent SpaceX\u2019s sixth batch of 60 Starlink broadband satellites into orbit and set a record for reusability today, but missed making yet another touchdown.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Falcon 9 lifted off right on time at 8:16 a.m. ET (5:16 a.m. PT) from Launch Complex 39A at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It marked the first time that a Falcon 9 first-stage booster has been used five times. The rocket\u2019s fairing, or nose cone, had been previously flown as well.<\/li>\n<li>A few minutes after launch, the rocket\u2019s second stage separated and headed onward to orbit. Meanwhile, the first stage tried flying itself back for a fifth landing, but SpaceX reported that the at-sea landing attempt was unsuccessful. In a tweet, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said there was an early engine shutdown on the booster that will require a \u201cthorough investigation\u201d before the next mission. SpaceX missed catching the fairing halves in ship-borne nets but fished them out of the water for reuse.<\/li>\n<li>The 60 satellites were deployed 15 minutes after liftoff, to join about 300 other Starlink spacecraft in low Earth orbit. The satellites, which are made at SpaceX\u2019s facility in Redmond, Wash., are expected to start providing broadband internet access as early as this year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A&nbsp; Falcon 9 rocket sent SpaceX\u2019s sixth batch of 60 Starlink broadband satellites into orbit and set a record for reusability today, but missed making yet another touchdown. The Falcon 9 lifted off right on time at 8:16 a.m. ET (5:16 a.m. PT) from Launch Complex 39A at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It [&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":[479,4434,20,442,316,440],"class_list":["post-17765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-falcon-9","tag-falcon-launch","tag-satellite","tag-satellites","tag-spacex","tag-starlink"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17765"}],"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=17765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}