{"id":100541,"date":"2020-01-06T04:22:59","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T12:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/the-u-s-space-force-will-support-a-spacex-mission-for-the-first-time"},"modified":"2020-01-06T04:22:59","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T12:22:59","slug":"the-u-s-space-force-will-support-a-spacex-mission-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/the-u-s-space-force-will-support-a-spacex-mission-for-the-first-time","title":{"rendered":"The U.S Space Force will support a SpaceX mission for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-u-s-space-force-will-support-a-spacex-mission-for-the-first-time.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Image Source: SpaceX<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX\u2019s first mission of 2020 will deploy Starlink satellites on Monday, January 6 \u2013It will mark the first official launch supported by the new United States Space Force. A Falcon 9 rocket will lift off at 9:20 p.m. EST from Pad 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. SpaceX conducted a static-fire test yesterday to prepare the rocket for the Starlink-2 mission.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"\"><p>Falcon 9 first stage booster supporting this mission previously launched a Starlink mission, the Iridium-8 mission, and the Telstar 18 VANTAGE mission <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpaceX\/status\/1213517077216186368\/photo\/1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pic.twitter.com\/QdailzdG4o\">pic.twitter.com\/QdailzdG4o<\/a><\/a>\u2014 SpaceX (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpaceX\">@SpaceX<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpaceX\/status\/1213517077216186368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 4, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image Source: SpaceX SpaceX\u2019s first mission of 2020 will deploy Starlink satellites on Monday, January 6 \u2013It will mark the first official launch supported by the new United States Space Force. A Falcon 9 rocket will lift off at 9:20 p.m. EST from Pad 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. SpaceX [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}