{"id":78899,"date":"2014-01-08T00:15:58","date_gmt":"2014-01-07T16:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacex-launches-thaicom-6-completes-second-gto-delivery-using-falcon-9-rocket\/"},"modified":"2014-01-08T00:15:58","modified_gmt":"2014-01-07T16:15:58","slug":"spacex-launches-thaicom-6-completes-second-gto-delivery-using-falcon-9-rocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacex-launches-thaicom-6-completes-second-gto-delivery-using-falcon-9-rocket\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Launches Thaicom 6, Completes Second GTO Delivery Using Falcon 9 Rocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 1-7-2014] <b>SpaceX <\/b>successfully launched the Thaicom 6 satellite for Asian satellite operator <b>Thaicom<\/b>. A Falcon 9 rocket was used to deliver the satellite to its targeted geosynchronous transfer orbit (GTO) at 22.5 degrees inclination.<\/p>\n<p>The launch occurred from Cape Canaveral\u2019s Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at 5:06 p.m. Eastern Time. Approximately 184 seconds into flight, the Falcon 9\u2019s second-stage Merlin vacuum engine ignited to begin a five minute, 35 second burn that delivered the Thaicom 6 satellite into its parking orbit. Eighteen minutes after injection into the parking orbit, the second stage engine relit for just over one minute to carry the Thaicom 6 satellite to its final GTO.<\/p>\n<p>The Thaicom 6 mission marks SpaceX\u2019s second flight to a geosynchronous transfer orbit using the Falcon 9 rocket. The company has close to 50 launches on manifest, of which over 60 percent are for commercial customers.<\/p>\n<p>This launch also marks the third of three qualification flights needed to certify the Falcon 9 to fly missions under the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) program. Once the rocket is certified, SpaceX will be eligible to compete to launch national security satellites for the United States<b> Air Force<\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 1-7-2014] SpaceX successfully launched the Thaicom 6 satellite for Asian satellite operator Thaicom. A Falcon 9 rocket was used to deliver the satellite to its targeted geosynchronous transfer orbit (GTO) at 22.5 degrees inclination. The launch occurred from Cape Canaveral\u2019s Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at 5:06 p.m. Eastern Time. Approximately 184 seconds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78901,"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-78899","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\/78899"}],"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=78899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}