{"id":63885,"date":"2018-10-08T22:15:43","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T14:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacex-first-stage-rocket-returns-to-vandenberg-after-deploying-saocom-1a\/"},"modified":"2018-10-08T22:15:43","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T14:15:43","slug":"spacex-first-stage-rocket-returns-to-vandenberg-after-deploying-saocom-1a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacex-first-stage-rocket-returns-to-vandenberg-after-deploying-saocom-1a\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX First-Stage Rocket Returns to Vandenberg After Deploying SAOCOM 1A"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>SpaceX<\/strong>\u2018s seventeenth launch in 2018 was a success, also signifying the first land landing on the United States\u2019 west coast. The space company&nbsp;successfully launched the SAOCOM 1A satellite on Sunday, Oct. 7 at 10:21 p.m. EST from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The satellite was launched on a Falcon 9 rocket, deployed about 12 minutes after liftoff, and delivered to Low Earth Orbit (LEO).&nbsp;Following stage separation, Falcon 9\u2019s first stage returned to land at SpaceX\u2019s Landing Zone 4 (LZ-4) at Vandenberg Air Force Base. LZ-4 is built on the former site of Space Launch Complex 4W, from which Titan rockets were previously launched.<\/p>\n<p>The SAOCOM 1A satellite is operated by Argentina\u2019s Space Agency, the <strong>National Commission on Space Activities<\/strong> (CONAE). The satellite carries an active instrument consisting of a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), which works in the microwave range of the electromagnetic spectrum, particularly the L-band. The SAOCOM 1 mission consists of a constellation of two identical satellites, SAOCOM 1A and 1B, each of which carries an L-Band SAR polarimetric instrument.<\/p>\n<p>The mission\u2019s main purpose is to gather soil moisture information. SAOCOM 1, together with the Italian COSMO-SkyMed X-Band SAR constellation, comprise the Italian-Argentine Satellite System for Emergency Management (SIASGE), a partnership between CONAE and the <strong>Italian Space Agency<\/strong> (ASI). International partnerships include ground support from the <strong>European Space Agency<\/strong>, and technical support from The <strong>Canadian Space Agency<\/strong> (CSA) and <strong>NASA<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX\u2018s seventeenth launch in 2018 was a success, also signifying the first land landing on the United States\u2019 west coast. The space company&nbsp;successfully launched the SAOCOM 1A satellite on Sunday, Oct. 7 at 10:21 p.m. EST from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The satellite was launched on a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63888,"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-63885","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\/63885"}],"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=63885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}