{"id":174365,"date":"2023-10-19T22:51:04","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T03:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/spacex-to-launch-falcon-9-rocket-tonight-on-16th-mission"},"modified":"2023-10-19T22:51:04","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T03:51:04","slug":"spacex-to-launch-falcon-9-rocket-tonight-on-16th-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/spacex-to-launch-falcon-9-rocket-tonight-on-16th-mission","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX to launch Falcon 9 rocket tonight on 16th mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-to-launch-falcon-9-rocket-tonight-on-16th-mission3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch 22 Starlink internet satellites to orbit this evening (Oct. 17), if all goes according to plan.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/18962-spacex-falcon-9.html\">Falcon 9<\/a> is scheduled to lift off from Florida\u2019s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station today at 5:20 p.m. EDT (2120 GMT). If <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/18853-spacex.html\">SpaceX<\/a> doesn\u2019t hit that target, there are five backup opportunities available between 6:11 p.m. EDT and 8:48 p.m. EDT (2211 to 48 GMT), company representatives wrote in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spacex.com\/launches\/mission\/?missionId=sl-6-23\" target=\"_blank\">mission description<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch 22 Starlink internet satellites to orbit this evening (Oct. 17), if all goes according to plan. The Falcon 9 is scheduled to lift off from Florida\u2019s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station today at 5:20 p.m. EDT (2120 GMT). If SpaceX doesn\u2019t hit that target, there are five backup [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174365","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=174365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}