{"id":18374,"date":"2018-09-09T19:39:02","date_gmt":"2018-09-09T11:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacex-falcon-9-rocket-sends-telstar-18v-satellite-into-orbit-booster-lands-at-sea\/"},"modified":"2018-09-09T19:39:02","modified_gmt":"2018-09-09T11:39:02","slug":"spacex-falcon-9-rocket-sends-telstar-18v-satellite-into-orbit-booster-lands-at-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacex-falcon-9-rocket-sends-telstar-18v-satellite-into-orbit-booster-lands-at-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket sends Telstar 18V satellite into orbit; booster lands at sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"Falcon 9 launches Telstar 18V &amp; Falcon 9 first stage landing\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HSSjcFJsYpA?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 launched its second heavyweight Telstar telecommunications satellite from Florida tonight, and brought the Falcon 9 rocket\u2019s first-stage booster down for a landing on a drone ship hundreds of miles offshore in the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>The mission to put the 15,600-pound Telstar 18 Vantage satellite into geostationary transfer orbit for Canadian-based Telesat was nearly a carbon copy of SpaceX\u2019s successful Telstar 19V launch in July, with a bit of added suspense due to the weather.<\/p>\n<p>Concerns about thunderstorms and lightning near the launch site at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station delayed the launch for 77 minutes, but the Falcon 9 rose without a hitch at 12:45 a.m. ET Monday (9:45 p.m. PT Sunday).<\/p>\n<p>Minutes after launch, the rocket\u2019s second stage separated from the first stage and sent the satellite onward to orbit. Meanwhile, the first stage maneuvered itself toward the landing ship, christened \u201cOf Course I Still Love You,\u201d slowed its supersonic descent, and made a problem-free touchdown on the deck.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_445997\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-445997\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full-width wp-image-445997\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/180909-landing-630x404.jpg\" alt=\"Booster touchdown\" width=\"630\" height=\"404\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-445997\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A webcam view shows the Falcon 9\u2019s first-stage booster on the deck of a drone ship after touchdown. (SpaceX via YouTube)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>SpaceX has been experimenting with techniques to recover and reuse the two halves of the Falcon 9\u2019s nose cone, or fairing, as part of an effort to achieve millions of dollars in additional cost savings. No such recovery attempt was made this time, however.<\/p>\n<p>A little more than a half-hour after launch, the Falcon 9\u2019s second stage relit its rocket engine to adjust its orbit. Then it deployed the satellite, marking the end of SpaceX\u2019s role in Telstar 18V\u2019s mission.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA great launch and deployment,\u201d launch commentator John Insprucker said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_445998\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-445998\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full-width wp-image-445998\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/180909-sep-630x439.jpg\" alt=\"Satellite deployment\" width=\"630\" height=\"439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/180909-sep-630x439.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/180909-sep-768x535.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/180909-sep-1260x878.jpg 1260w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/180909-sep.jpg 1346w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-445998\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Telstar 18V satellite separates from the Falcon 9 second stage, as seen in a rocketcam view. (SpaceX via YouTube)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Over the course of the next few weeks, the satellite will get into position over the Asia-Pacific region and add to Telesat\u2019s broadband coverage in C-band and Ku-band frequencies. Its transponders will provide wide-ranging broadband coverage across Asia and reaching all the way to Hawaii, and focused beams for customers in Southeast Asia, Mongolia, Australia, New Zealand and the North Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>The next-generation Telstar spacecraft rank among the heaviest commercial telecom satellites ever sent into orbit, and have a design life of 15 years.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight\u2019s launch represented SpaceX\u2019s 60th successful Falcon 9 launch since the rocket\u2019s debut in 2010 (with one failure in 2015, plus a launch-pad loss of rocket and payload in 2016). SpaceX\u2019s next launch is due to put Argentina\u2019s SAOCOM 1A Earth-monitoring satellite into orbit in October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX launched its second heavyweight Telstar telecommunications satellite from Florida tonight, and brought the Falcon 9 rocket\u2019s first-stage booster down for a landing on a drone ship hundreds of miles offshore in the Atlantic Ocean. The mission to put the 15,600-pound Telstar 18 Vantage satellite into geostationary transfer orbit for Canadian-based Telesat was nearly 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":[479,4434,316,2739,5175],"class_list":["post-18374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-falcon-9","tag-falcon-launch","tag-spacex","tag-telesat","tag-telstar"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18374"}],"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=18374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}