{"id":87491,"date":"2010-02-12T20:39:52","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T12:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacex-receives-falcon-9-second-stage-begins-vehicle-integration\/"},"modified":"2010-02-12T20:39:52","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T12:39:52","slug":"spacex-receives-falcon-9-second-stage-begins-vehicle-integration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacex-receives-falcon-9-second-stage-begins-vehicle-integration\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Receives Falcon 9 Second Stage; Begins Vehicle Integration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[02-12-10] <strong>SpaceX<\/strong> has received all of the flight hardware needed for the debut launch of its Falcon 9 medium-to-heavy-lift vehicle at the Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40), in Cape Canaveral, Fla., the company announced Feb. 11. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The final delivery included the Falcon 9\u2019s second stage, which completed testing at SpaceX\u2019s test facility in McGregor, Texas, earlier this month.  SpaceX has initiated full vehicle integration of the rocket, which will include a Dragon spacecraft qualification unit. Falcon 9 and Dragon were selected by <strong>NASA<\/strong> in December 2008 under the $1.6 billion COTS program contract to resupply the International Space Station once the space shuttle retires in 2010. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cWe expect to launch in one to three months after completing full vehicle integration,\u201d SpaceX Director of Florida Launch Operations Brian Mosdell said in a statement. <\/p>\n<h2>Related Stories<\/h2>\n<p><b class=\"titlelink\">SpaceX s Dragon Spacecraft Completes Testing,  Demonstration Session<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tFebruary 4, 2010<br \/>\n[02-04-10] SpaceX has  completed a three-day demonstration and testing session of cargo loading  and unloading procedures for its Dragon spacecraft, which NASA has  contracted to provide delivery services to the International Space\u2026<\/p>\n<p><b class=\"titlelink\">Obama Cuts NASA s Moon Spacecraft Program<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tFebruary 2, 2010<br \/>\n[02-02-10] The White House has  terminated NASA s work on Orion, the follow-up vehicle to the Space  Shuttle; ended development on two NASA rockets designed to fly manned  missions to the moon; and will hand over space transportation\u2026<\/p>\n<p><b class=\"titlelink\">ASAP Report: SpaceX, Orbital Sciences Do Not Meet COTS  Human Spaceflight Standards<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tSatellite Today&nbsp;&nbsp; \t\t\tJanuary 21, 2010<br \/>\n[01-21-10] The U.S. Aerospace  Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP) claimed that launch vehicles by SpaceX and  Orbital Sciences Corp. currently do not meet the required safety  standards to transport NASA personnel for the Commercial Orbital\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[02-12-10] SpaceX has received all of the flight hardware needed for the debut launch of its Falcon 9 medium-to-heavy-lift vehicle at the Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40), in Cape Canaveral, Fla., the company announced Feb. 11. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The final delivery included the Falcon 9\u2019s second stage, which completed testing at SpaceX\u2019s test facility in McGregor, [&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-87491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87491"}],"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=87491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}