{"id":118761,"date":"2021-01-22T10:22:20","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T18:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/spacex-set-for-unique-weekend-launch-from-cape-canaveral"},"modified":"2021-01-22T10:22:20","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T18:22:20","slug":"spacex-set-for-unique-weekend-launch-from-cape-canaveral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/spacex-set-for-unique-weekend-launch-from-cape-canaveral","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX set for unique weekend launch from Cape Canaveral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-set-for-unique-weekend-launch-from-cape-canaveral.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Update (8:15 p.m. Thursday): SpaceX is now targeting no earlier than 9:40 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 23, for this launch. This also means weather odds decline from 80% \u201cgo\u201d to 60% \u201cgo.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX teams at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station are set for the company\u2019s next launch on Friday, a unique mission that will hug the Florida coast as it flies a southern trajectory.<\/p>\n<p>If everything goes as planned, a previously flown Falcon 9 will vault off Launch Complex 40 at 9:24 a.m. and turn southeast, placing its mission on a sun-synchronous \u2013 or nearly polar \u2013 trajectory. Friday\u2019s launch window will remain open for about an hour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update (8:15 p.m. Thursday): SpaceX is now targeting no earlier than 9:40 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 23, for this launch. This also means weather odds decline from 80% \u201cgo\u201d to 60% \u201cgo.\u201d SpaceX teams at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station are set for the company\u2019s next launch on Friday, a unique mission that will hug the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118761","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=118761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}