{"id":80808,"date":"2018-07-21T09:02:45","date_gmt":"2018-07-21T16:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/spacex-is-about-to-tackle-one-of-its-biggest-recovery-challenges-yet"},"modified":"2018-07-21T09:02:45","modified_gmt":"2018-07-21T16:02:45","slug":"spacex-is-about-to-tackle-one-of-its-biggest-recovery-challenges-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/spacex-is-about-to-tackle-one-of-its-biggest-recovery-challenges-yet","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Is About to Tackle One of Its Biggest Recovery Challenges Yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-is-about-to-tackle-one-of-its-biggest-recovery-challenges-yet.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Starting July 22, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/topic\/spacex\">SpaceX<\/a> will have the chance to further cement itself as the best wide receiver in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/topic\/aerospace\">aerospace<\/a> game. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/topic\/elon-musk\">Elon Musk<\/a>\u2019s rocket company is scheduled to make a total of five recoveries in less than two weeks, including three Falcon 9 autonomous spaceport done ships recoveries, a rocket fairing recovery, and a Dragon capsule retrieval.<\/p>\n<p>This will require SpaceX\u2019s fleet of recovery vessels to kick into overdrive. Both of its drone ships \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/43880-watch-spacex-nail-its-13th-droneship-landing-after-nasa-mission\">Of Course I Still Love You<\/a> in the Atlantic Ocean and Just Read The Instructions in the Pacific \u2014 will be serving as a landing platform for two separate Falcon 9 rockets. While two boats, including the newly upgraded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/47099-spacex-mr-steven-giant-net-tested-at-high-speeds-in-stunning-video\">Mr. Steven<\/a> and NRC Quest will be tasked with bringing back a Falcon 9 fairing and the Dragon Capsule, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX prides itself on pioneering the use of reusable rocket parts and space vessels to make <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/topic\/space-travel\">space travel<\/a> more affordable than it has ever been. These five recoveries will put the company\u2019s most iconic retrieval systems to the test.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/47278-spacex-will-tackle-biggest-recovery-challenge\">https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/47278-spacex-will-tackle-big...-challenge<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting July 22, SpaceX will have the chance to further cement itself as the best wide receiver in the aerospace game. Elon Musk\u2019s rocket company is scheduled to make a total of five recoveries in less than two weeks, including three Falcon 9 autonomous spaceport done ships recoveries, a rocket fairing recovery, and a Dragon [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,2019,6,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-elon-musk","category-robotics-ai","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80808","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=80808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80808\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}