{"id":18960,"date":"2017-05-15T21:04:27","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T13:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacex-falcon-9-rocket-sends-inmarsat-telecom-satellite-to-high-flying-orbit\/"},"modified":"2017-05-15T21:04:27","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T13:04:27","slug":"spacex-falcon-9-rocket-sends-inmarsat-telecom-satellite-to-high-flying-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacex-falcon-9-rocket-sends-inmarsat-telecom-satellite-to-high-flying-orbit\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket sends Inmarsat telecom satellite to high-flying orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_332636\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-332636\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-332636 size-full-width\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/170515-spacex-630x518.jpg\" alt=\"SpaceX Falcon 9 launch\" width=\"630\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/170515-spacex-630x518.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/170515-spacex-768x631.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/170515-spacex.jpg 842w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-332636\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket rises from Launch Complex 39A at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, sending an Inmarsat satellite into space. (SpaceX via YouTube)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 rocket today launched the Inmarsat-5 F4 telecommunications satellite&nbsp;to a geostationary transfer orbit ranging beyond 22,000 miles in height&nbsp;\u2013 so high that there was no chance to bring the first-stage&nbsp;booster back for a landing.<\/p>\n<p>The rocket lifted off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center at the beginning of the launch window, at 7:21 p.m. ET (4:21 p.m. PT).<\/p>\n<p>Over the past year, SpaceX has made Falcon 9 booster&nbsp;landings seem almost routine. But missions aimed at putting satellites in geostationary orbits typically require so much oomph that there\u2019s not enough fuel for a controlled descent.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the first stage tumbled back down to crash harmlessly into the Atlantic Ocean. SpaceX didn\u2019t even bother to install landing legs on the rocket.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Falcon 9\u2019s&nbsp;second stage continued skyward to power Inmarsat\u2019s 6.7-ton, bus-sized spacecraft into&nbsp;a low-Earth parking&nbsp;orbit. A later engine burn successfully put&nbsp;Inmarsat-5 F4 into its proper orbit for spacecraft separation.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Blastoff! SpaceX Launches Inmarsat-5 F4 Satellite | Video\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WV4vq8zrS1I?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 Boeing-built satellite is the fourth of its breed, beefing up&nbsp;Inmarsat\u2019s Global Xpress broadband data network, servicing customers on land, at sea and in the air.<\/p>\n<p>The three earlier satellites in the $1.6 billion constellation were launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan by Russian rockets. When the third satellite was launched in 2015, Inmarsat CEO Rupert Pearce said his company was switching to SpaceX because of the \u201cunacceptably high failure rate\u201d of Russia\u2019s Proton rockets.<\/p>\n<p>Inmarsat started out as an international maritime satellite service&nbsp;provider, but the London-based company has branched out into fields ranging from in-flight Wi-Fi to connected cars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket rises from Launch Complex 39A at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, sending an Inmarsat satellite into space. (SpaceX via YouTube) SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 rocket today launched the Inmarsat-5 F4 telecommunications satellite&nbsp;to a geostationary transfer orbit ranging beyond 22,000 miles in height&nbsp;\u2013 so high that there was no chance to [&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":[4434,2607,316],"class_list":["post-18960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-falcon-launch","tag-inmarsat","tag-spacex"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18960"}],"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=18960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}