{"id":120553,"date":"2021-03-14T07:23:05","date_gmt":"2021-03-14T14:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/spacex-sets-new-booster-reuse-mark-with-starlink-launch"},"modified":"2021-03-14T07:23:05","modified_gmt":"2021-03-14T14:23:05","slug":"spacex-sets-new-booster-reuse-mark-with-starlink-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/spacex-sets-new-booster-reuse-mark-with-starlink-launch","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX sets new booster reuse mark with Starlink launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-sets-new-booster-reuse-mark-with-starlink-launch.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 A Falcon 9 launched another set of Starlink satellites March 14, with the rocket\u2019s first stage setting a record with its ninth launch and landing.<\/p>\n<p>The Falcon 9 lifted off from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center at 6:01 a.m. Eastern. The upper stage deployed its payload of 60 Starlink satellites into orbit 65 minutes later, bringing the size of the broadband internet constellation to 1260 satellites.<\/p>\n<p>The launch was the eighth for the Falcon 9 this year, and took place a little more than 72 hours after <a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/spacex-launches-starlink-satellites-and-expands-international-service\/\">another Falcon 9 launch of Starlink satellites<\/a>. Six of the eight Falcon 9 launches this year have been dedicated to Starlink, and one of the other two, the Transporter-1 dedicated rideshare flight, also carried 10 Starlink satellites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 A Falcon 9 launched another set of Starlink satellites March 14, with the rocket\u2019s first stage setting a record with its ninth launch and landing. The Falcon 9 lifted off from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center at 6:01 a.m. Eastern. The upper stage deployed its payload of 60 Starlink satellites [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120553","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=120553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}