{"id":161392,"date":"2023-04-01T04:22:20","date_gmt":"2023-04-01T09:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/spacex-aborts-launch-with-initial-satellites-for-space-development-agency"},"modified":"2023-04-01T04:22:20","modified_gmt":"2023-04-01T09:22:20","slug":"spacex-aborts-launch-with-initial-satellites-for-space-development-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/spacex-aborts-launch-with-initial-satellites-for-space-development-agency","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX aborts launch with initial satellites for Space Development Agency"},"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\/HykOiPLO3SU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It is interesting to watch SpaceX continue to massively expand, with the goal of going from 61 launches last year to 100 launches this year.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX\u2019s old record for a month was 7 launches, but in March they completed 8 launches, and almost did 9 but their latest launch had technical difficulties, and the closest they got to launch during the past two days was an abort with 2 seconds to go. They will try a 3rd time to launch this rocket tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>If SpaceX could do 9 launches\/month, that would be 9 12 = 108 launches\/year, or enough to meet their goal of 100 launches.<\/p>\n<p>With Starlink now being profitable, they have a big incentive to launch as often as possible. The more they launch, the more they make!<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>SpaceX is now scheduled to launch a batch of 10 communications and missile tracking satellites on the Tranche 0 Flight 1 mission for the Space Development Agency (SDA) on Saturday, April 1, 2023. A first attempt on Thursday was aborted at T-3 seconds.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/spacex-aborts-launch-with-initial-satellites-for-space-development-agency\">Continue reading \u201cSpaceX aborts launch with initial satellites for Space Development Agency\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is interesting to watch SpaceX continue to massively expand, with the goal of going from 61 launches last year to 100 launches this year. SpaceX\u2019s old record for a month was 7 launches, but in March they completed 8 launches, and almost did 9 but their latest launch had technical difficulties, and the closest [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161392","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}