{"id":1024,"date":"2017-10-29T22:04:19","date_gmt":"2017-10-29T22:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/?p=1024"},"modified":"2017-10-29T22:04:19","modified_gmt":"2017-10-29T22:04:19","slug":"spacex-to-launch-korean-satellite-on-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/2017\/10\/29\/spacex-to-launch-korean-satellite-on-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX to Launch Korean Satellite on Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/800px-Launch_pad_40_ready_for_Falcon_9_rocket.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-859\" src=\"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/800px-Launch_pad_40_ready_for_Falcon_9_rocket-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" \/><\/a>SpaceX is getting ready to launch a Koreasat 5A into orbit atop a Falcon 9 rocket.<br \/>\nThe 2-hour, 24-minute launch window for the South Korean communications satellite opens at 3:34 p.m. This is the 16th flight that the Hawthorne, California-based company will perform in 2017.<br \/>\nIf the liftoff from seaside Launch Complex 39A at Cape Canaveral goes off without a hitch, it will mark the third time this month that SpaceX launches a rocket, twice from Florida.<br \/>\nAccording to the 45th Weather Squadron, which is based at <a href=\"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\">Cape Canaveral<\/a> Air Force Station, the probability of weather causing a delay is almost nonexistent with less than a 10 percent chance of violating mission rules and primary concern for strong winds at liftoff.<!--more--><br \/>\nAs a result of the new Korean satellite, the television service in the whole Australia and much of Africa and Asia will get a boost.<br \/>\nSpaceX on Thursday tweeted that the company had conducted a Static Fire test on the rocket. The Static Fire test is a standard test that precedes a launch. The test is also known as the Hot Fire test. The main aim of the test is to ensure that the pad\u2019s fueling systems function properly in a fully operational environment.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/news\/space\/os-bz-spacex-launch-koreasat-20171027-story.html\">Orlando Sentinel<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX is getting ready to launch a Koreasat 5A into orbit atop a Falcon 9 rocket. The 2-hour, 24-minute launch window for the South Korean communications satellite opens at 3:34 p.m. This is the 16th flight that the Hawthorne, California-based company will perform in 2017. If the liftoff from seaside Launch Complex 39A at Cape &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/2017\/10\/29\/spacex-to-launch-korean-satellite-on-monday\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;SpaceX to Launch Korean Satellite on Monday&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[18,41,60],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}