{"id":91248,"date":"2019-05-23T22:22:21","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T05:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/spacexs-deploys-60-satellite-starlink-blob-all-spacecraft-successfully-phone-home"},"modified":"2019-05-23T22:22:21","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T05:22:21","slug":"spacexs-deploys-60-satellite-starlink-blob-all-spacecraft-successfully-phone-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/spacexs-deploys-60-satellite-starlink-blob-all-spacecraft-successfully-phone-home","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX\u2019s deploys 60-satellite Starlink blob, all spacecraft successfully phone home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/riBaVeDTEWI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX\u2019s first 60 \u201cproduction-design\u201d Starlink satellites have been successfully placed in orbit, kicking off a constellation beta test at an unprecedented scale. According to CEO Elon Musk, all spacecraft also managed to successfully \u2018phone home\u2019 after separation.<\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s Redmond satellite operators still need to verify that all spacecraft are functional and healthy after a Falcon 9 launch and chaotic deployment from the rocket\u2019s upper stage, but the riskiest part of the mission is now arguably behind SpaceX. What remains is essentially a massive, hardware-rich test of SpaceX\u2019s Starlink satellite constellation, ranging from granular flight testing of individual components to an effective simulation of a full constellation\u2019s operations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.teslarati.com\/spacex-launches-starlink-60-satellite-test\/\" 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\u2019s first 60 \u201cproduction-design\u201d Starlink satellites have been successfully placed in orbit, kicking off a constellation beta test at an unprecedented scale. According to CEO Elon Musk, all spacecraft also managed to successfully \u2018phone home\u2019 after separation. The company\u2019s Redmond satellite operators still need to verify that all spacecraft are functional and healthy after a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91248","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\/91248","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=91248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}