{"id":118229,"date":"2021-01-09T11:22:32","date_gmt":"2021-01-09T19:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/los-angeles-rocket-startup-abl-space-aims-for-first-launch-as-early-as-march"},"modified":"2021-01-09T11:22:32","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T19:22:32","slug":"los-angeles-rocket-startup-abl-space-aims-for-first-launch-as-early-as-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/los-angeles-rocket-startup-abl-space-aims-for-first-launch-as-early-as-march","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles rocket startup ABL Space aims for first launch as early as March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/los-angeles-rocket-startup-abl-space-aims-for-first-launch-as-early-as-march2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>EL SEGUNDO, California \u2014 Rocket building startup ABL Space, founded by veterans of SpaceX and Morgan Stanley, is in the final stretch of preparations for its inaugural launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re tracking toward vehicle readiness in March,\u201d ABL president and CFO Dan Piemont told CNBC on Monday during a tour of the company\u2019s Los Angeles-area facilities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re working on the last bits of scheduling with the [Vandenberg launch] range. We do think that could push us into Q2, so right now no earlier than March but no later than June is the plan,\u201d Piemont added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EL SEGUNDO, California \u2014 Rocket building startup ABL Space, founded by veterans of SpaceX and Morgan Stanley, is in the final stretch of preparations for its inaugural launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base. \u201cWe\u2019re tracking toward vehicle readiness in March,\u201d ABL president and CFO Dan Piemont told CNBC on Monday during a tour of the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118229","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}