{"id":729,"date":"2015-12-21T18:42:02","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T18:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/?p=729"},"modified":"2015-12-21T18:42:02","modified_gmt":"2015-12-21T18:42:02","slug":"spacex-falcon-9-launch-postponed-until-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/2015\/12\/21\/spacex-falcon-9-launch-postponed-until-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Falcon 9 Launch Postponed Until Monday"},"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 Falcon 9 launch, scheduled for Sunday was delayed by one day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">SpaceX delayed the scheduled launch of its 229-foot-tall Falcon 9 rocket, the company said in an official statement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Falcon 9 rocket had been scheduled to launch from Complex 40 launch pad, at <a href=\"https:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\" target=\"_blank\">Cape Canaveral<\/a> Air Force Station in Florida at 8:29 p.m. ET Sunday, but the company\u00a0announced\u00a0at 4 p.m. that it would aim for a launch at 8:33 p.m. Monday as they need time &#8220;for more analysis&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">An earlier attempt at launching the Falcon 9 on June 28th resulted in an explosion and the rocket broke apart less than two-and-a-half minutes after the liftoff. The crash destroyed the company\u2019s unmanned Dragon cargo ship bound for the International Space Station.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sunday afternoon, only several hours before the initially planned launch of Falcon 9, SpaceX&#8217;s billionaire founder, Elon Musk announced on Twitter that the rocket would have \u201ca 10 percent higher chance of a good landing\u201d on Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">SpaceX has tried <a href=\"https:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/spacex-will-try-next-rocket-landing-on-solid-ground\/\" target=\"_blank\">several times<\/a> to land the rocket on a floating ocean platform, but those attempts have failed and the company says each try has taught them more about how to succeed in the future.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The California-based company will attempt to land the first stage of its rocket in an upright position on solid ground for the first time, which is a milestone in making rockets reusable.\u00a0The Falcon 9 is aimed to deliver 11 satellites to low-Earth orbit for ORBCOMM, a New Jersey-based communications company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX Falcon 9 launch, scheduled for Sunday was delayed by one day. SpaceX delayed the scheduled launch of its 229-foot-tall Falcon 9 rocket, the company said in an official statement. The Falcon 9 rocket had been scheduled to launch from Complex 40 launch pad, at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 8:29 p.m. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/2015\/12\/21\/spacex-falcon-9-launch-postponed-until-monday\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;SpaceX Falcon 9 Launch Postponed Until 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":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729"}],"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=729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}