{"id":90786,"date":"2019-05-16T10:22:25","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T17:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/spacex-will-send-60-satellites-to-orbit-tonight-in-the-first-of-a-dozen-launches-to-set-up-starlink"},"modified":"2019-05-16T10:22:25","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T17:22:25","slug":"spacex-will-send-60-satellites-to-orbit-tonight-in-the-first-of-a-dozen-launches-to-set-up-starlink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/spacex-will-send-60-satellites-to-orbit-tonight-in-the-first-of-a-dozen-launches-to-set-up-starlink","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX will send 60 satellites to orbit tonight in the first of a dozen launches to set up Starlink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><video width=\"636\" height=\"358\" controls><source src=\"https:\/\/videos.dailymail.co.uk\/video\/mol\/2018\/11\/09\/5821732399856859709\/1024x576_MP4_5821732399856859709.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\"><\/video><\/p>\n<p>In the first of a dozen launches to set up its Starlink network that could provide high-speed internet all around the world\u2026<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>SpaceX is now eyeing tonight for the lift-off of a Falcon 9 rocket towing the first of 60 Starlink satellites after postponing its planned Wednesday launch due to high winds.<\/p>\n<p>Launch of the mission, aimed at placing the initial stage of Musk\u2019s space-based global internet network into low-Earth orbit, was rescheduled for 10:30 p.m. on Thursday (0230 GMT Friday) from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, SpaceX said.<\/p>\n<p>In a call with reporters before Wednesday\u2019s countdown was halted, the high-tech entrepreneur praised the \u2018fundamental goodness\u2019 of his ambitions to expand internet connectivity globally but cautioned that success was far from guaranteed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-7037487\/SpaceX-send-60-satellites-orbit-tonight-dozen-launches-set-Starlink.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the first of a dozen launches to set up its Starlink network that could provide high-speed internet all around the world\u2026 SpaceX is now eyeing tonight for the lift-off of a Falcon 9 rocket towing the first of 60 Starlink satellites after postponing its planned Wednesday launch due to high winds. Launch of the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":409,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90786","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\/409"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}