{"id":62171,"date":"2019-06-25T21:13:10","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T13:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacex-successfully-launches-nasa-satellites\/"},"modified":"2019-06-25T21:13:10","modified_gmt":"2019-06-25T13:13:10","slug":"spacex-successfully-launches-nasa-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacex-successfully-launches-nasa-satellites\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Successfully Launches NASA Satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>A <strong>SpaceX<\/strong> Falcon Heavy rocket carrying 24 satellites as part of the <strong>U.S. Department of Defense<\/strong> (DoD) Space Test Program-2 (STP-2) mission launched from Launch Complex 39A, Tuesday, June 25 at <strong>NASA<\/strong>\u2018s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Four NASA technology and science payloads that will study non-toxic spacecraft fuel, deep space navigation, \u201cbubbles\u201d in the electrically-charged layers of Earth\u2019s upper atmosphere, and radiation protection for satellites are among the two dozen satellites put into orbit.<\/p>\n<p>The missions, each with a unique set of objectives, will help aid in smarter spacecraft design and benefit the agency\u2019s Moon to Mars exploration plans by providing greater insight into the effects of radiation in space and testing an atomic clock that could change how spacecraft navigate.&nbsp;With launch and deployments complete, the missions will start to power on, communicate with Earth and collect data. They each will operate for about a year, providing enough time to mature the technologies and collect valuable science data. Below is more information about each mission, including notional timelines for key milestones.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis launch was a true partnership across government and industry, and it marked an incredible first for the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center,\u201d said&nbsp;Jim Reuter, associate administrator for NASA\u2019s Space Technology Mission Directorate. \u201cThe NASA missions aboard the Falcon Heavy also benefited from strong collaborations with industry, academia, and other government organizations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket carrying 24 satellites as part of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Space Test Program-2 (STP-2) mission launched from Launch Complex 39A, Tuesday, June 25 at NASA\u2018s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Four NASA technology and science payloads that will study non-toxic spacecraft fuel, deep space navigation, \u201cbubbles\u201d in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56594,"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":[],"class_list":["post-62171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62171"}],"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=62171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}