{"id":90620,"date":"2019-05-11T21:02:39","date_gmt":"2019-05-12T04:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/spacex-ceo-elon-musk-reveals-radical-starlink-redesign-for-60-satellite-launch"},"modified":"2019-05-11T21:02:39","modified_gmt":"2019-05-12T04:02:39","slug":"spacex-ceo-elon-musk-reveals-radical-starlink-redesign-for-60-satellite-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/spacex-ceo-elon-musk-reveals-radical-starlink-redesign-for-60-satellite-launch","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX CEO Elon Musk reveals radical Starlink redesign for 60-satellite launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-ceo-elon-musk-reveals-radical-starlink-redesign-for-60-satellite-launch.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has published the first official photo of the company\u2019s near-final Starlink design and confirmed that Falcon 9 will launch a staggering 60 satellites on May 15th.<\/p>\n<p>Known internally as Starlink v0.9, this mission will not be the first launch of operational satellites, but it will be the first internal SpaceX mission with a dedicated Falcon 9 launch. Additionally, the payload will be the heaviest yet launched by SpaceX, signifying an extraordinarily ambitious first step towards realizing the company\u2019s ~12,000-satellite Starlink megaconstellation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.teslarati.com\/spacex-starlink-satellites-tease-revolutionary-design\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has published the first official photo of the company\u2019s near-final Starlink design and confirmed that Falcon 9 will launch a staggering 60 satellites on May 15th. Known internally as Starlink v0.9, this mission will not be the first launch of operational satellites, but it will be the first internal SpaceX mission [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90620","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}