{"id":132097,"date":"2021-12-10T07:25:38","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T15:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/spacex-converts-falcon-heavy-core-into-falcon-9-booster"},"modified":"2021-12-10T07:25:38","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T15:25:38","slug":"spacex-converts-falcon-heavy-core-into-falcon-9-booster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/spacex-converts-falcon-heavy-core-into-falcon-9-booster","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX converts Falcon Heavy core into Falcon 9 booster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-converts-falcon-heavy-core-into-falcon-9-booster2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More than two years after the rocket\u2019s last launch, SpaceX appears to have finally decided to give at least one of two surviving Falcon Heavy Block 5 cores a new lease on life as a Falcon 9 booster.<\/p>\n<p>Known as B1052, the Falcon Heavy side core or booster debuted in April 2019 as part of the first flight of the rocket\u2019s Block 5 variant, successfully launching Saudi Arabia\u2019s large Arabsat 6A communications satellite to an almost 90,000 km (56,000 mi) transfer orbit. Following in the footsteps of the first Falcon Heavy, the first Block 5 vehicle repeated its predecessor\u2019s iconic double-landing back at Cape Canaveral. Just 74 days later, both Falcon Heavy Block 5 side boosters B1052 and B1053 launched again, this time supporting the US military\u2019s long-delayed STP-2 rideshare and qualification mission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than two years after the rocket\u2019s last launch, SpaceX appears to have finally decided to give at least one of two surviving Falcon Heavy Block 5 cores a new lease on life as a Falcon 9 booster. Known as B1052, the Falcon Heavy side core or booster debuted in April 2019 as part of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132097","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=132097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}