{"id":85763,"date":"2010-11-24T17:47:55","date_gmt":"2010-11-24T09:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacex-receives-faa-license-to-re-enter-spacecraft-from-orbit\/"},"modified":"2010-11-24T17:47:55","modified_gmt":"2010-11-24T09:47:55","slug":"spacex-receives-faa-license-to-re-enter-spacecraft-from-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacex-receives-faa-license-to-re-enter-spacecraft-from-orbit\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Receives FAA License to Re-Enter Spacecraft from Orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[11-24-10] <strong>The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration<\/strong> (FAA) <strong>Office of Commercial Space Transportation<\/strong> has issued <strong>SpaceX<\/strong> a license to re-enter a spacecraft from orbit, making SpaceX the first commercial company to be authorized to do so since the FAA was formed, SpaceX announced Nov. 23.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The license, valid for one year from the date of issue, was needed for SpaceX\u2019s plans to launch its Dragon spacecraft into low-Earth orbit atop a Falcon 9 rocket next month. The Dragon capsule is expected to orbit the Earth at speeds greater than 17,000 miles per hour, re-enter the Earth\u2019s atmosphere, and land in the Pacific Ocean a few hours later. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; This will be the first attempt by a commercial company to recover a spacecraft reentering from low-Earth orbit.&nbsp; It is also the first flight under <strong>NASA<\/strong>\u2019s Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program to develop commercial supply services to the International Space Station and encourage the growth of the commercial space industry.&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[11-24-10] The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Office of Commercial Space Transportation has issued SpaceX a license to re-enter a spacecraft from orbit, making SpaceX the first commercial company to be authorized to do so since the FAA was formed, SpaceX announced Nov. 23. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The license, valid for one year from the date of [&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":[],"class_list":["post-85763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85763"}],"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=85763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}