{"id":18532,"date":"2018-05-10T20:12:19","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T12:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/computer-aborts-milestone-spacex-rocket-launch-at-last-minute-forcing-a-days-delay\/"},"modified":"2018-05-10T20:12:19","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T12:12:19","slug":"computer-aborts-milestone-spacex-rocket-launch-at-last-minute-forcing-a-days-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/computer-aborts-milestone-spacex-rocket-launch-at-last-minute-forcing-a-days-delay\/","title":{"rendered":"Computer aborts milestone SpaceX rocket launch at last minute, forcing a day\u2019s delay"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_419043\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-419043\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full-width wp-image-419043\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/180510-spacex-630x374.jpg\" alt=\"Falcon 9 Block 5\" width=\"630\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/180510-spacex-630x374.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/180510-spacex-768x456.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/180510-spacex-1260x748.jpg 1260w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/180510-spacex.jpg 1818w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-419043\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SpaceX\u2019s first Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket sits on its Florida launch pad. (SpaceX via YouTube)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>News Brief:<\/strong> The anxiously awaited launch of the first of SpaceX\u2019s \u201clast\u201d Falcon 9 rockets will have to wait at least one more day. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says the company\u2019s upgraded Block 5 model \u201cwill be the last major version of the Falcon 9\u201d before it\u2019s retired in favor of the super-duper-sized BFR. This first Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket was due to launch the Bangabandhu Satellite-1 for Bangladesh from NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center today, but SpaceX\u2019s flight control computer automatically called a halt to the countdown at T-minus-58 seconds. There was no immediate word on the cause of the abort. Launch is now set for 4:14 p.m. ET (1:14 p.m. PT) on Friday. Check out the mission press kit, and watch for SpaceX\u2019s next webcast.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Bangabandhu Satellite-1 Mission\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rQEqKZ7CJlk?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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX\u2019s first Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket sits on its Florida launch pad. (SpaceX via YouTube) News Brief: The anxiously awaited launch of the first of SpaceX\u2019s \u201clast\u201d Falcon 9 rockets will have to wait at least one more day. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says the company\u2019s upgraded Block 5 model \u201cwill be the last [&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],"class_list":["post-18532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-falcon-9","tag-falcon-launch","tag-spacex"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18532"}],"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=18532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}