{"id":107033,"date":"2020-05-13T19:04:31","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T02:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/planets-next-six-satellites-will-launch-on-upcoming-spacex-starlink-missions"},"modified":"2020-05-13T19:04:31","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T02:04:31","slug":"planets-next-six-satellites-will-launch-on-upcoming-spacex-starlink-missions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/planets-next-six-satellites-will-launch-on-upcoming-spacex-starlink-missions","title":{"rendered":"Planet\u2019s next six satellites will launch on upcoming SpaceX Starlink missions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/planets-next-six-satellites-will-launch-on-upcoming-spacex-starlink-missions.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Planet announced that its next six SkySat satellites will fly to low Earth orbit on SpaceX Starlink missions scheduled later this summer.<\/p>\n<p>The six SkySats will be evenly split across two launches on SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9, Planet said May 13 in a news release. Planet\u2019s spacecraft will be rideshare payloads on the Starlink launches.<\/p>\n<p>The first three \u2014 SkySats 16\u201318 \u2014 will launch on SpaceX\u2019s ninth Starlink mission expected to launch in June. The next three \u2014 SkySats 19\u201321 \u2014 will launch later this summer. Both missions will lift off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Planet announced that its next six SkySat satellites will fly to low Earth orbit on SpaceX Starlink missions scheduled later this summer. The six SkySats will be evenly split across two launches on SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9, Planet said May 13 in a news release. Planet\u2019s spacecraft will be rideshare payloads on the Starlink [\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-107033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107033","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=107033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}