{"id":861,"date":"2016-09-01T20:38:12","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T20:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/?p=861"},"modified":"2016-09-01T20:38:12","modified_gmt":"2016-09-01T20:38:12","slug":"explosion-rocks-spacex-launch-pad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/2016\/09\/01\/explosion-rocks-spacex-launch-pad\/","title":{"rendered":"Explosion Rocks SpaceX Launch Pad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/800px-USAF_EOD_explosion.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-865\" src=\"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/800px-USAF_EOD_explosion-300x171.jpg\" alt=\"800px-USAF_EOD_explosion\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" \/><\/a>A Space X Falcon 9 rocket exploded at Cape Canaveral<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">An explosion at Space X launch site has rocked Cape Canaveral on Thursday morning. The incident took place just after 9 a.m. at Launch Complex 40 while an unmanned Falcon 9 rocket was being test-fired ahead of a scheduled launch at 3 a.m. on Saturday, said NASA.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A fireball was seen and multiple explosions were heard, as reported by witnesses. Buildings several miles away from the <a href=\"https:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\">Kennedy Space Center<\/a> were shaken by the force of the blast. Huge clouds of dark smoke were sent into the sky and provoked\u00a0a social media firestorm.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the aerospace company SpaceX, \u201can anomaly had occurred\u201d on the pad, while loading the rocket with fuel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The rocket\u2019s payload, the Amos-6 communications satellite was built for Facebook by Israeli Aerospace Industry. Unfortunately, both the rocket and the payload were destroyed, a Space X spokesman said. According to experts, the communications satellite was valued at more than $200 million. Amos-6 was planned to deliver internet access to the remote parts of the world as part of Facebook Internet.org initiative.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is currently visiting Nigeria, Africa. When he heard that satellite had been destroyed, he wrote on his Facebook account that he was &#8220;deeply disappointed&#8221; but still committed to Facebook\u2019s mission of connecting people and his team will keep working on the project, \u201cuntil everyone has the opportunities this satellite would have provided&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Space X Falcon 9 rocket exploded at Cape Canaveral An explosion at Space X launch site has rocked Cape Canaveral on Thursday morning. The incident took place just after 9 a.m. at Launch Complex 40 while an unmanned Falcon 9 rocket was being test-fired ahead of a scheduled launch at 3 a.m. on Saturday, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/2016\/09\/01\/explosion-rocks-spacex-launch-pad\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Explosion Rocks SpaceX Launch Pad&#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":[41,65,73],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861"}],"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=861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/orlando.interplex.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}