{"id":147350,"date":"2022-10-01T15:24:19","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T20:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/fireflys-alpha-rocket-earns-its-wings-with-first-successful-launch"},"modified":"2022-10-01T15:24:19","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T20:24:19","slug":"fireflys-alpha-rocket-earns-its-wings-with-first-successful-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/fireflys-alpha-rocket-earns-its-wings-with-first-successful-launch","title":{"rendered":"Firefly\u2019s Alpha rocket earns its wings with first successful launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hjr-hQR8m7o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The rocket managed to make to the orbit and deliver all three of its payloads.<\/p>\n<p>There was much to celebrate on Saturday as Firefly Aerospace\u2019s Alpha rocket successfully delivered a few tiny satellites to Earth orbit for the first time ever, according to an article by <a href=\"http:\/\/Space.com\">Space.com<\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<b>Making orbit and delivering payloads<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The rocket lifted off from California\u2019s Vandenberg Space Force Base on October 1 at 3:01 a.m. EDT (12:01 a.m. local California time; 701 GMT) and managed to make to orbit and deliver all three of its payloads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rocket managed to make to the orbit and deliver all three of its payloads. There was much to celebrate on Saturday as Firefly Aerospace\u2019s Alpha rocket successfully delivered a few tiny satellites to Earth orbit for the first time ever, according to an article by Space.com Making orbit and delivering payloads The rocket lifted [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147350","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}