{"id":78581,"date":"2018-05-10T23:03:08","date_gmt":"2018-05-11T06:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/elon-musk-wants-to-launch-the-same-rocket-to-orbit-twice-in-a-single-day"},"modified":"2018-05-15T13:13:44","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T20:13:44","slug":"elon-musk-wants-to-launch-the-same-rocket-to-orbit-twice-in-a-single-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/elon-musk-wants-to-launch-the-same-rocket-to-orbit-twice-in-a-single-day","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk wants to launch the same rocket to orbit twice in a single day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elon-musk-wants-to-launch-the-same-rocket-to-orbit-twice-in-a-single-day.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Launching the same rocket to orbit twice in 24 hours has never been done before. But Elon Musk says the newest version of his Falcon 9 rocket will accomplish the feat in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a ridiculously hard thing that has taken us\u202616 years of extreme effort and many, many iterations,\u201d the serial entrepreneur told reporters, after warning them \u201cwe\u2019re definitely going to stay on space, don\u2019t even try.\u201d SpaceX is <a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/1274923\/livestream-watch-spacex-launch-a-satellite-on-the-redesigned-falcon-9-block-v-rocket\/\">debuting the new rocket today<\/a> with the launch of Bangladesh\u2019s first satellite.<\/p>\n<p>Musk said this is intended to be the final version of the SpaceX workhorse Falcon 9, allowing his engineers to focus on a <a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/1090435\/spacexs-elon-musk-unveils-a-new-rocket-that-can-fly-to-the-moon-mars-and-shanghai\/\">larger interplanetary rocket called the BFR<\/a>. In the meantime, <a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/1274581\/spacexs-falcon-9-launch-of-bangabandhu-1-debuts-the-new-block-v-rocket\/\">Block 5, as the final iteration is known<\/a>, could fly as many as 300 missions into space. \u201cIf things go well, SpaceX will launch more rockets than any other country in 2018,\u201d Musk predicted.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/1275293\/elon-musk-wants-spacex-to-launch-the-same-rocket-to-orbit-twice-in-a-single-day-in-2019\/\">https:\/\/qz.com\/1275293\/elon-musk-wants-spacex-to-launch-the-...y-in-2019\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Launching the same rocket to orbit twice in 24 hours has never been done before. But Elon Musk says the newest version of his Falcon 9 rocket will accomplish the feat in 2019. \u201cThis is a ridiculously hard thing that has taken us\u202616 years of extreme effort and many, many iterations,\u201d the serial entrepreneur told [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78581","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=78581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78782,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78581\/revisions\/78782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}