{"id":1305,"date":"2020-06-30T08:07:58","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T08:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/?p=1305"},"modified":"2020-07-01T08:08:55","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T08:08:55","slug":"spacex-launches-falcon-9-on-its-first-mission-for-space-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/2020\/06\/30\/spacex-launches-falcon-9-on-its-first-mission-for-space-force\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Launches Falcon 9 on its First Mission for Space Force"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"576\" src=\"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Liftoff_of_the_upgraded_Falcon_9_2-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1040\" srcset=\"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Liftoff_of_the_upgraded_Falcon_9_2-1.jpg 800w, http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Liftoff_of_the_upgraded_Falcon_9_2-1-300x216.jpg 300w, http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Liftoff_of_the_upgraded_Falcon_9_2-1-768x553.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has just launched a U.S. Space Force GPS 3 satellite. The rocket lifted off at 4:10 p.m., from pad 40 at <a href=\"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/\">Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The third GPS 3-series satellite designated GPS 3 SV03 is riding a 229-foot-tall Falcon 9 rocket. The 9,505-pound spacecraft launched on a trajectory toward the northeast from Cape Canaveral, flying almost parallel to the U.S. East Coast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>The new GPS 3 will join a\nconstellation of 31 GPS satellites currently in operation. Each satellite\ncircles the earth twice per day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The $568 million payloads is the third GPS 3 satellite made by Lockheed Martin. It separated from the rocket\u2019s second stage approximately one hour and 29 minutes after liftoff. The GPS 3 satellite was deployed in a medium Earth orbit at an altitude of about 12,550 miles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SpaceX\u2019s&nbsp;first launch\nof a GPS 3 satellite&nbsp;was on December 23, 2018. Followed by the June 30\nmission and the company is currently under contract to launch three more GPS 3\nsatellites over the next two years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eight minutes after\nliftoff, the Falcon 9\u2019s brand-new first stage landed and was recovered by SpaceX\nin the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This marked the Falcon 9\u2019s\n87th successful mission, also the 49th first stage successfully recovered, as\nwell as the&nbsp;first time SpaceX recovered a booster&nbsp;following a\nNational Security Space Launch mission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/satelliteprome.com\/news\/spacex-launches-lockheed-martin-built-gps-satellite-into-orbit-for-space-force\/\">Satellite Prome<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has just launched a U.S. Space Force GPS 3 satellite. The rocket lifted off at 4:10 p.m., from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The third GPS 3-series satellite designated GPS 3 SV03 is riding a 229-foot-tall Falcon 9 rocket. The 9,505-pound spacecraft launched on a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/2020\/06\/30\/spacex-launches-falcon-9-on-its-first-mission-for-space-force\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;SpaceX Launches Falcon 9 on its First Mission for Space Force&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1040,"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\/1305"}],"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=1305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1306,"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305\/revisions\/1306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}