{"id":18771,"date":"2017-10-11T23:58:31","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T15:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacex-launches-a-satellite-and-lands-a-falcon-9-booster-for-second-time-this-week\/"},"modified":"2017-10-11T23:58:31","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T15:58:31","slug":"spacex-launches-a-satellite-and-lands-a-falcon-9-booster-for-second-time-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacex-launches-a-satellite-and-lands-a-falcon-9-booster-for-second-time-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launches a satellite and lands a Falcon 9 booster for second time this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_368758\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-368758\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full-width wp-image-368758\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/171011-spacex-630x366.jpg\" alt=\"SpaceX launch\" width=\"630\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/171011-spacex-630x366.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/171011-spacex-768x446.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/171011-spacex.jpg 1056w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-368758\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 rocket rises from Launch Complex 39A at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida with the SES-11\/Echostar-105 telecommunications satellite. (SpaceX via YouTube)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Good things came in threes for SpaceX today: For the third time, it used a previously flown Falcon 9 rocket booster to send a payload into space, and had that booster land itself on an oceangoing platform.<\/p>\n<p>Successful recovery of the first-stage booster after launching the Echostar 105\/SES-11 telecommunications satellite could even set the double-flown stage for a third go-round.<\/p>\n<p>It was the second Falcon 9 liftoff this week, coming after a launch from California on Monday that successfully put 10 Iridium Next telecom satellites in orbit.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s flight was similarly successful, starting with the 6:53 p.m. ET (3:53 p.m. PT) launch from Launch Complex 39A at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"SpaceX Launches Echostar Satellite with Used Rocket\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0pMvco6YoPQ?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>The rocket went through stage separation minutes into its ascent&nbsp;\u2014 and in what has now become a well-worn routine, the second stage blasted onward into orbit while the first stage went through a series of autonomous maneuvers to fly itself to its landing spot.<\/p>\n<p>In this case, the landing spot was the deck of an autonomous drone ship named \u201cOf Course I Still Love You,\u201d stationed hundreds of miles out in the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>Although the video feed from the robotic ship hiccuped for a bit, the camera eventually showed the booster standing tall on the ship and sputtering flames, sparking cheers from SpaceX\u2019s headquarters in Hawthorne, Calif.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"SpaceX Lands Reused 1st Stage on Drone Ship\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q5dIVMV5-TE?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>After reaching orbit, the second stage fired its rocket engine to maneuver into the proper orbit for deployment of the Echostar 105\/SES-11&nbsp;satellite.<\/p>\n<p>The hybrid satellite is designed to operate from geostationary orbit over North America for 15 years. It\u2019ll provide Ku-band communication services through EchoStar for commercial and U.S. government customers, as well as high-definition and ultra-high-def video service through SES in the C-band part of the spectrum.<\/p>\n<p>The booster that was used today first flew in February, when it helped send a Dragon cargo capsule to the International Space Station. After the booster landed, it was refurbished at SpaceX\u2019s Florida facility.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier booster reflights took place in March and June.<\/p>\n<p>Rocket reusability is part of SpaceX\u2019s strategy for dramatically reducing the cost of access to space. Last month, SpaceX billionaire founder Elon Musk announced plans to build a fully reusable BFR (\u201cBig Falcon Rocket\u201d) that could facilitate passenger trips around the world and to the moon and Mars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 rocket rises from Launch Complex 39A at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida with the SES-11\/Echostar-105 telecommunications satellite. (SpaceX via YouTube) Good things came in threes for SpaceX today: For the third time, it used a previously flown Falcon 9 rocket booster to send a payload into space, and had that booster [&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":[4434,20,316],"class_list":["post-18771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-falcon-launch","tag-satellite","tag-spacex"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18771"}],"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=18771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}