{"id":67991,"date":"2017-06-19T21:13:23","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T13:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacex-could-launch-double-header-after-bulgariasat-1-delay\/"},"modified":"2017-06-19T21:13:23","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T13:13:23","slug":"spacex-could-launch-double-header-after-bulgariasat-1-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacex-could-launch-double-header-after-bulgariasat-1-delay\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Could Launch \u201cDouble Header\u201d After BulgariaSat 1 Delay"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>After pushing back the launch of a Bulgarian communications satellite on Sunday, June 18, <strong>SpaceX <\/strong>announced it could proceed with \u201cdouble-header\u201d launches this coming weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Falcon 9 was set to launch BulgariaSat 1 from Launch Complex 39A at <strong>NASA\u2019s<\/strong> Kennedy Space Center, but SpaceX stated on Twitter it would delay the launch to replace a valve on the rocket\u2019s fairing.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Postponing launch to replace fairing pneumatic valve. It is dual redundant, but not worth taking a chance. https:\/\/t.co\/vnfxmeer7h<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 18, 2017<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\" type=\"osano\/blocked\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX stated the next launch opportunity for BulgariaSat 1 opens at approximately 2:10 p.m. EDT on June 23, with a backup window on June 24. With the next set of <strong>Iridium<\/strong> Next satellites scheduled to launch on June 25 from Vandenberg Air Force Base, the company could potentially launch two satellites within a 48-hour period.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p>\nIf schedule holds there will be two Falcon 9 launches within 48 hours (Cape &amp; Vandenberg) this weekend https:\/\/t.co\/GbleRPm6iZ<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 18, 2017\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\" type=\"osano\/blocked\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>BulgariaSat 1, operated by <strong>BulgariaSat<\/strong>, will provide Direct-to-Home (DTH) television and telecommunications services in the Balkans and other European regions. The satellite carries 30 Ku-band Broadcasting Satellite Service (BSS) transponders to broaden the availability of services such as High Definition (HD) television.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After pushing back the launch of a Bulgarian communications satellite on Sunday, June 18, SpaceX announced it could proceed with \u201cdouble-header\u201d launches this coming weekend. Falcon 9 was set to launch BulgariaSat 1 from Launch Complex 39A at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center, but SpaceX stated on Twitter it would delay the launch to replace a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58637,"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-67991","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\/67991"}],"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=67991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}