{"id":83192,"date":"2018-10-01T12:24:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T19:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/spacex-paints-x-on-western-falcon-9-landing-pad-for-rocket-recovery-debut"},"modified":"2018-10-01T12:24:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T19:24:00","slug":"spacex-paints-x-on-western-falcon-9-landing-pad-for-rocket-recovery-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/spacex-paints-x-on-western-falcon-9-landing-pad-for-rocket-recovery-debut","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX paints \u201cX\u201d on Western Falcon 9 landing pad for rocket recovery debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-paints-x-on-western-falcon-9-landing-pad-for-rocket-recovery-debut.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/NASASpaceflight.com\">NASASpaceflight.com<\/a>, SpaceX has finished painting a fresh \u201cX\u201d on their newest Falcon 9 landing zone, located just a quarter of a mile from the company\u2019s SLC-4 Vandenberg Air Force Base launch facilities.<\/p>\n<p>In work in one shape or another since late 2014, mainly due to a lack of a pressing need for the pad, it\u2019s looking increasingly likely that the West Coast landing zone (LZ) will be used for the first time on October 6th, shortly after a flight-proven Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket launches the Argentinian Earth-sensing satellite SAOCOM-1A.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p> SpaceX Falcon 9 launch with SAOCOM 1A coming up at Vandenberg next weekend. Static Fire test is NET October 2.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teslarati.com\/spacex-paints-x-on-western-falcon-9-landing-pad-for-rocket-recovery-debut\/\">https:\/\/www.teslarati.com\/spacex-paints-x-on-western-falcon-...ery-debut\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to NASASpaceflight.com, SpaceX has finished painting a fresh \u201cX\u201d on their newest Falcon 9 landing zone, located just a quarter of a mile from the company\u2019s SLC-4 Vandenberg Air Force Base launch facilities. In work in one shape or another since late 2014, mainly due to a lack of a pressing need for the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83192","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=83192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}