{"id":1196,"date":"2019-04-07T13:18:42","date_gmt":"2019-04-07T13:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/?p=1196"},"modified":"2019-04-07T13:18:44","modified_gmt":"2019-04-07T13:18:44","slug":"spacex-falcon-heavy-rocket-launch-rescheduled-for-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/2019\/04\/07\/spacex-falcon-heavy-rocket-launch-rescheduled-for-tuesday\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Falcon Heavy Rocket Launch Rescheduled for Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" src=\"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/400px-Falcon_Heavy_clearing_the_tower_10.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1197\" srcset=\"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/400px-Falcon_Heavy_clearing_the_tower_10.jpg 400w, http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/400px-Falcon_Heavy_clearing_the_tower_10-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>SpaceX Falcon heavy rocket next launch from Florida\u2019s Space Coast has been pushed back to Tuesday, April 9. The megarocket will lift off from historic Pad 39A at <a href=\"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\">NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center<\/a> carrying the Arabsat 6A communications satellite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although this is the second launch of the world\u2019s most powerful\nrocket, it will be its first commercial mission. Its maiden launch was a\ndemonstration flight on February 6, last year, when Elon Musk&#8217;s&nbsp;cherry-red&nbsp;\nRoadster&nbsp;and a Starman dummy pilot were sent into space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>The Falcon Heavy will be delivering the Arabsat 6A communications\nsatellite into geostationary orbit, providing communication coverage over the\nMiddle East and North Africa regions, as well as a footprint in South Africa. The&nbsp;Arabsat\n6A communications satellite is made by Arabsat of Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is not the only objective of the upcoming launch, the company\nwill also attempt to recover all three of the first-stage boosters: two\nreturning back to Florida coast and one on SpaceX\u2019s floating platforms in the\nAtlantic Ocean.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A prelaunch test of the second Falcon Heavy was successfully\ncompleted Friday when the megarocket&#8217;s 27 engines were fired up. The brief\nignition is known as a static fire test. This is one of the last major\nmilestones in launch preparations that ensures all systems are working properly\nand that the rocket is ready to lift off. The highly anticipated test,\noriginally estimated to take place on Monday April 1, appeared to go off\nwithout a hitch. CEO Elon Musk tweeted on Friday afternoon, \u201cStatic fire data\nlooks good so far.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFalcon Heavy is now the most powerful operational rocket in the world,\u201d SpaceX said on its website. \u201cOnly the Saturn V moon rocket, flown in 1973, delivered more payload to orbit.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/spacecoastdaily.com\/2019\/04\/spacex-falcon-heavy-launch-scheduled-for-april-7-from-kennedy-space-center\/\">Space Coast Daily<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX Falcon heavy rocket next launch from Florida\u2019s Space Coast has been pushed back to Tuesday, April 9. The megarocket will lift off from historic Pad 39A at NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center carrying the Arabsat 6A communications satellite. Although this is the second launch of the world\u2019s most powerful rocket, it will be its first &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/2019\/04\/07\/spacex-falcon-heavy-rocket-launch-rescheduled-for-tuesday\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;SpaceX Falcon Heavy Rocket Launch Rescheduled for Tuesday&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196"}],"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=1196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1198,"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196\/revisions\/1198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}