{"id":103756,"date":"2020-03-14T04:02:34","date_gmt":"2020-03-14T11:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/spacex-readying-for-sundays-sixth-starlink-launch-first-fifth-booster-flight"},"modified":"2020-03-14T04:02:34","modified_gmt":"2020-03-14T11:02:34","slug":"spacex-readying-for-sundays-sixth-starlink-launch-first-fifth-booster-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/spacex-readying-for-sundays-sixth-starlink-launch-first-fifth-booster-flight","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX readying for Sunday\u2019s sixth Starlink launch, first fifth booster flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aHQQu9GWOps?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX is preparing its Falcon 9 to launch the Starlink V1.0 L5 mission, although the launch date has been moved to Sunday. This mission will be the first Starlink launch from LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center, and the first from the pad since the Crew Dragon In-Flight Abort Test in January 2020. The first stage is B1048.5 \u2013 marking the first time a Falcon 9 core flies for the fifth time. The launch is now scheduled for 9:22 AM Eastern on March 15.<\/p>\n<p><em>Lead Image by Mike Deep<\/em><strong> Starlink launch:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This mission will launch the 5th batch of 60 fully-operational Starlink satellites \u2013 the sixth batch overall \u2013 to a Low Earth Orbit (LEO). This will also be the first Starlink launch from the historic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasaspaceflight.com\/?s=39A\">Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at Kennedy Space Center.<\/a> Previous Starlink missions launched from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40), just over three miles south of LC-39A.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX is preparing its Falcon 9 to launch the Starlink V1.0 L5 mission, although the launch date has been moved to Sunday. This mission will be the first Starlink launch from LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center, and the first from the pad since the Crew Dragon In-Flight Abort Test in January 2020. The first stage [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103756","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}