{"id":17854,"date":"2019-12-16T23:19:07","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T15:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacex-launches-a-double-duty-telecom-satellite-and-doubles-down-on-rocket-reusability\/"},"modified":"2019-12-16T23:19:07","modified_gmt":"2019-12-16T15:19:07","slug":"spacex-launches-a-double-duty-telecom-satellite-and-doubles-down-on-rocket-reusability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacex-launches-a-double-duty-telecom-satellite-and-doubles-down-on-rocket-reusability\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launches a double-duty telecom satellite and doubles down on rocket reusability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"SpaceX JCSAT-18\/Kacific1 launch &amp; Falcon 9 first stage landing\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L_1Dom5ryck?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 sent a dual-payload telecommunications satellite to orbit today, recovered the Falcon 9 rocket\u2019s first-stage booster at sea, and narrowly missed catching the rocket\u2019s nose cone components as they fell.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Liftoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida came at 7:10 p.m. ET (4:10 p.m. PT) at the end of a trouble-free countdown. A little more than a half-hour after launch, the JCSAT-18\/Kacific1 satellite was successfully deployed in geostationary transfer orbit. As a cost-saving measure for its operators, the satellite carries two payloads \u2014 JCSAT-18 for Japan\u2019s SKY Perfect JSAT, providing TV and broadband data services in Asia; and Kacific Broadband Satellites Group\u2019s Kacific1, which is designed to provide high-speed broadband services for underserved markets and disaster relief in the Asia-Pacific region.<\/li>\n<li>While the Boeing-built satellite rode to orbit on the Falcon 9\u2019s second stage, the first stage guided itself down to a touchdown on SpaceX\u2019s drone ship, stationed hundreds of miles out in the Atlantic. Such at-sea landings have become routine, and SpaceX\u2019s ability to refurbish and reuse rocket stages helps reduce the cost of access to space.<\/li>\n<li>SpaceX has also developed procedures for recovering components of the Falcon 9\u2019s nose cone, or fairing, which could save millions of dollars in costs. This time, two ships known as Ms. Tree and Ms. Chief voyaged out with giant nets to try catching both halves of the fairing. \u201cMs. Tree and Ms. Chief narrowly missed catching the fairing halves \u2014 team is working to recover them for potential use on a future flight,\u201d SpaceX reported in a tweet.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX sent a dual-payload telecommunications satellite to orbit today, recovered the Falcon 9 rocket\u2019s first-stage booster at sea, and narrowly missed catching the rocket\u2019s nose cone components as they fell. Liftoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida came at 7:10 p.m. ET (4:10 p.m. PT) at the end of a trouble-free countdown. A [&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":[2456,20,442,3488,316],"class_list":["post-17854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-kacific","tag-satellite","tag-satellites","tag-sky-perfect-jsat","tag-spacex"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17854"}],"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=17854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}