{"id":2327,"date":"2018-05-10T08:16:55","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T13:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=2327"},"modified":"2018-05-10T08:16:55","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T13:16:55","slug":"spacex-to-launch-upgraded-falcon-9-rocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=2327","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX to Launch Upgraded Falcon 9 Rocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1em; color: #26282a; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" data-reactid=\"22\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">The next launch by\u00a0 Space Exploration Technologies Corp. appears almost routine by now: A satellite owned by Bangladesh will blast into orbit on top of\u00a0a reusable Falcon 9 rocket, then the booster will land back on a drone ship to be launched again at a later date. SpaceX has already done this 24 times\u201411 by land, 13 by sea. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1em; color: #26282a; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" data-reactid=\"23\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">But Thursday\u2019s\u00a0launch\u00a0will mark the debut of a slightly different rocket, called Falcon 9 Block 5, that SpaceX\u00a0has crafted to more quickly send\u00a0an already used rocket\u00a0back into space. The new rocket is \u201cdesigned to be capable of 10 or more flights with very limited refurbishment,\u201dSpaceX said\u00a0ahead of the launch.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\"23\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Click the link below for the full story!<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\"23\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/spacex-latest-upgrade-aims-rockets-100013177.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SpaceX to Launch Upgraded Falcon 9 Rocket<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\"23\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-2328\" src=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/falcon9-300x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"677\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/falcon9-300x160.jpg 300w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/falcon9.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 677px) 100vw, 677px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next launch by\u00a0 Space Exploration Technologies Corp. appears almost routine by now: A satellite owned by Bangladesh will blast into orbit on top of\u00a0a reusable Falcon 9 rocket, then the booster will land back on a drone ship to be launched again at a later date. SpaceX has already done this 24 times\u201411 by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,814,868],"tags":[747,1029,1026,1028,707,1025,708,1027,937,155,742,542],"class_list":["post-2327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation-news","category-tesla","category-transportation-news","tag-747","tag-1029","tag-bangladesh","tag-block","tag-elon","tag-exploration","tag-musk","tag-newsfalcon","tag-space","tag-spacex","tag-technologies","tag-tesla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2329,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327\/revisions\/2329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}