{"id":28956,"date":"2016-08-15T11:49:10","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T18:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/spacex-lands-falcon-9-rocket-after-launching-japanese-satellite"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:24:39","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:24:39","slug":"spacex-lands-falcon-9-rocket-after-launching-japanese-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/spacex-lands-falcon-9-rocket-after-launching-japanese-satellite","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX lands Falcon 9 rocket after launching Japanese satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-lands-falcon-9-rocket-after-launching-japanese-satellite.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX successfully landed a reusable Falcon 9 rocket on a floating drone ship at sea early Sunday after the vehicle had sent a Japanese communications satellite into orbit.<\/p>\n<p>The California-based company\u2019s eighth launch this year was part of its ongoing effort to re-use costly rocket parts instead of jettisoning them into the ocean.<\/p>\n<p>It was also the fourth time SpaceX has vertically landed a used Falcon 9 rocket aboard a floating platform at sea.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2016-08-spacex-falcon-rocket-japanese-satellite.html\">http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2016&#45;08-spacex-falcon-rocket-japanese-satellite.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX successfully landed a reusable Falcon 9 rocket on a floating drone ship at sea early Sunday after the vehicle had sent a Japanese communications satellite into orbit. The California-based company\u2019s eighth launch this year was part of its ongoing effort to re-use costly rocket parts instead of jettisoning them into the ocean. It was [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28956","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28956"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66566,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28956\/revisions\/66566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}