{"id":167922,"date":"2023-07-20T16:30:09","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T21:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/falcon-9-puts-on-a-show-in-the-californian-skies"},"modified":"2023-07-20T16:30:09","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T21:30:09","slug":"falcon-9-puts-on-a-show-in-the-californian-skies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/falcon-9-puts-on-a-show-in-the-californian-skies","title":{"rendered":"Falcon 9 puts on a show in the Californian skies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/falcon-9-puts-on-a-show-in-the-californian-skies2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last night at 9:09 p.m. PT (04:09 UTC), SpaceX successfully launched 15 V2 mini Starlink satellites to low Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California.<\/p>\n<p>Following a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teslarati.com\/spacex-to-launch-15-version-2-mini-starlinks-from-west-coast\/\">last-second aborted launch attempt<\/a> the previous night, SpaceX teams performed checkouts of the Falcon 9 and determined another attempt to launch the next-gen satellites was good to go. During the previous attempt, the launch was held early in the countdown due to a \u201cperceived leak\u201d in the second stage, then eventually, the automated abort at T-minus 5 seconds.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"\"><p>Liftoff! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpaceX\/status\/1681879269914603521\/video\/1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pic.twitter.com\/CzetVZFGbv\">pic.twitter.com\/CzetVZFGbv<\/a><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night at 9:09 p.m. PT (04:09 UTC), SpaceX successfully launched 15 V2 mini Starlink satellites to low Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. Following a last-second aborted launch attempt the previous night, SpaceX teams performed checkouts of the Falcon 9 and determined another attempt to launch [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,6,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-robotics-ai","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167922","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=167922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}