{"id":169162,"date":"2023-08-07T02:24:30","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T07:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/starlink-96-6-8-mission-falcon-9"},"modified":"2023-08-07T02:24:30","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T07:24:30","slug":"starlink-96-6-8-mission-falcon-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/starlink-96-6-8-mission-falcon-9","title":{"rendered":"Starlink-96 (6\u22128) Mission (Falcon 9)"},"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\/1sGWUunA2mM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX set a new record and did a launch at the same tower only 3 days, 22 hours, and 33 minutes after the last launch there. And this was after the launch was rescheduled due to bad weather.<\/p>\n<p>If SpaceX could maintain a pace of once every 4 days for all 3 towers, they would be doing about 274 launches\/year! While they clearly won\u2019t launch that fast in the near future, they are gaining steam. And they are working on activating a fourth tower!<\/p>\n<p>Finally, on the last Falcon Heavy launch, this complex beast had to abort the launch because a part had failed. SpaceX swapped out the part and then launched two days later. Imagine how long a regular space organization would have taken to swap out a part!<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was set to launch the Starlink-96 (6\u22128) mission on Monday, August 7, 2023 at 2:41 AM (UTC).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX set a new record and did a launch at the same tower only 3 days, 22 hours, and 33 minutes after the last launch there. And this was after the launch was rescheduled due to bad weather. If SpaceX could maintain a pace of once every 4 days for all 3 towers, they would [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169162","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=169162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}