{"id":178485,"date":"2023-12-17T10:27:38","date_gmt":"2023-12-17T16:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/falcon-9-spacexs-workhorse-rocket"},"modified":"2023-12-17T10:27:38","modified_gmt":"2023-12-17T16:27:38","slug":"falcon-9-spacexs-workhorse-rocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/falcon-9-spacexs-workhorse-rocket","title":{"rendered":"Falcon 9: SpaceX\u2019s workhorse rocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/falcon-9-spacexs-workhorse-rocket2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/18853-spacex.html\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/18853-spacex.html\">SpaceX<\/a> Falcon 9 rocket is the vehicle that brings satellites, Dragon cargo spacecraft and Crew <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/18852-spacex-dragon.html\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/18852-spacex-dragon.html\">Dragon spacecraft<\/a> to orbit.<\/p>\n<p>Among its many uses, SpaceX regularly launches Falcon 9 to bring its Dragon spacecraft to the <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/16748-international-space-station.html\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/16748-international-space-station.html\">International Space Station<\/a>. Dragon made the first private spacecraft visit ever there in October 2012 and has run more than 25 cargo missions in the years since. Since 2020, SpaceX also used Falcon 9 for crewed missions to the ISS, on behalf of NASA and other customers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is the vehicle that brings satellites, Dragon cargo spacecraft and Crew Dragon spacecraft to orbit. Among its many uses, SpaceX regularly launches Falcon 9 to bring its Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station. Dragon made the first private spacecraft visit ever there in October 2012 and has run more [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":716,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178485","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\/716"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}