{"id":155577,"date":"2023-01-16T12:23:54","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T18:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/watch-the-spectacular-spacex-rocket-launch-as-boosters-return-to-earth-in-tandem"},"modified":"2023-01-16T12:23:54","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T18:23:54","slug":"watch-the-spectacular-spacex-rocket-launch-as-boosters-return-to-earth-in-tandem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/watch-the-spectacular-spacex-rocket-launch-as-boosters-return-to-earth-in-tandem","title":{"rendered":"Watch The Spectacular SpaceX Rocket Launch As Boosters Return To Earth In Tandem"},"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\/nfxyF1_Ylkk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The world\u2019s second-most powerful rocket\u2014though it\u2019s largest partially renewable rocket\u2014yesterday blasted-off on a secret mission for the US Space Force amid spectacular views. Only the fifth flight of the company\u2019s heavy-life Falcon Heavy rocket (though the second inside a few months), the event took place in twilight Sunday, with a satellite being successfully sent into geosynchronous Earth orbit (meaning it will orbit at the same speed as Earth rotates). Two side-boosters then returned to land in tandem on launch pads.<\/p>\n<p>They were the 163th and 164th successful landings of an orbital-class rocket, according to SpaceX.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The mission, called USSF-67, took a communications satellite into orbit for the US military.<\/p>\n<p>It blasted off from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 5:56 p.m. ET with the side-boosters returning minutes later to two adjacent launch pads in Cape Canaveral.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world\u2019s second-most powerful rocket\u2014though it\u2019s largest partially renewable rocket\u2014yesterday blasted-off on a secret mission for the US Space Force amid spectacular views. Only the fifth flight of the company\u2019s heavy-life Falcon Heavy rocket (though the second inside a few months), the event took place in twilight Sunday, with a satellite being successfully sent into [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,9,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-military","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155577","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=155577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}