{"id":91925,"date":"2019-06-11T09:22:44","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T16:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/nasa-details-deep-space-atomic-clock-and-other-tests-launching-on-spacex-falcon-heavy"},"modified":"2019-06-11T09:22:44","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T16:22:44","slug":"nasa-details-deep-space-atomic-clock-and-other-tests-launching-on-spacex-falcon-heavy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/nasa-details-deep-space-atomic-clock-and-other-tests-launching-on-spacex-falcon-heavy","title":{"rendered":"NASA details Deep Space Atomic Clock and other tests launching on SpaceX Falcon Heavy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-details-deep-space-atomic-clock-and-other-tests-launching-on-spacex-falcon-heavy.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/crunchbase.com\/organization\/space-exploration-technologies\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"organization\" data-entity=\"space-exploration-technologies\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SpaceX\u2019s<\/a> next mission for its Falcon Heavy high-capacity rocket is set for June 24, when it\u2019ll take off from NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida with 20 satellites on board that comprise the Department of Defense\u2019s Space Test Program-2. That\u2019s not all it\u2019ll carry however: There also will be cargo pertaining to four <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/crunchbase.com\/organization\/nasa\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"organization\" data-entity=\"nasa\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NASA<\/a> missions aboard the private launch vehicle, including materials that will support the Deep Space Atomic Clock, the Green Propellant Infusion Mission and two payloads that will serve scientific missions.<\/p>\n<p>NASA detailed all of these missions in a press conference today, going into more detail about what each will involve and why NASA is even pursuing this research to begin with.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2019\/06\/10\/nasa-details-deep-space-atomic-clock-and-other-tests-launching-on-spacex-falcon-heavy\/\" 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 next mission for its Falcon Heavy high-capacity rocket is set for June 24, when it\u2019ll take off from NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida with 20 satellites on board that comprise the Department of Defense\u2019s Space Test Program-2. That\u2019s not all it\u2019ll carry however: There also will be cargo pertaining to four NASA missions [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91925","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=91925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}