{"id":723,"date":"2015-12-07T22:48:11","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T22:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/?p=723"},"modified":"2015-12-07T22:48:11","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T22:48:11","slug":"spacex-will-try-next-rocket-landing-on-solid-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/2015\/12\/07\/spacex-will-try-next-rocket-landing-on-solid-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Will Try Next Rocket Landing on Solid Ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/400px-Launch_of_Juno.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-724\" src=\"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/400px-Launch_of_Juno-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"400px-Launch_of_Juno\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>SpaceX is planning to attempt next rocket landing on solid ground at Cape Canaveral instead of on an ocean platform.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Elon Musk&#8217;s\u00a0SpaceX\u00a0company\u00a0is hoping to land its next Falcon 9 rocket on the ground at NASA&#8217;s Cape Canaveral facility in Florida.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">SpaceX has tried several times to land a rocket gently before, but those attempts were made on giant floating platforms in the ocean.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rival spaceflight company Blue Origin\u00a0has recently managed to land\u00a0its own reusable rocket safely on the ground. NASA officials confirmed the terrestrial landing attempt during a press conference last week on the upgraded<a href=\"https:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\" target=\"_blank\"> Kennedy Space Center<\/a>\u2019s historic launchpad 39A. The site is planned to be refitted to accommodate SpaceX\u2019s much larger Falcon Heavy rocket when it begins launching sometime next year.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">SpaceX has spent much of the second half of this year recovering from the June 28th failure of the second stage of its Falcon 9 rocket. The rocket exploded and broke apart less than two-and-a-half minutes after the launch from Cape Canaveral on June 28. The crash destroyed a SpaceX-owned Dragon supply ship bound for the International Space Station.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0The results of an investigation on the cause of Falcon 9 failure said a strut inside the second stage\u2019s liquid oxygen tank broke and caused the tank to overpressurize and burst. Since Falcon 9 rocket exploded in June, the company is upgrading their rockets\u00a0with new engines that can carry heavier loads.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">SpaceX&#8217;s next launch could happen as early as December 15, but a flight plan has not been confirmed by the U.S. Air Force.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX is planning to attempt next rocket landing on solid ground at Cape Canaveral instead of on an ocean platform. Elon Musk&#8217;s\u00a0SpaceX\u00a0company\u00a0is hoping to land its next Falcon 9 rocket on the ground at NASA&#8217;s Cape Canaveral facility in Florida. SpaceX has tried several times to land a rocket gently before, but those attempts were &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/2015\/12\/07\/spacex-will-try-next-rocket-landing-on-solid-ground\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;SpaceX Will Try Next Rocket Landing on Solid Ground&#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":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723"}],"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=723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}