{"id":92018,"date":"2019-06-13T15:22:31","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T22:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/spacex-falcon-9-bids-temporary-goodbye-to-west-coast-in-launch-landing-photos"},"modified":"2019-06-13T15:22:31","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T22:22:31","slug":"spacex-falcon-9-bids-temporary-goodbye-to-west-coast-in-launch-landing-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/spacex-falcon-9-bids-temporary-goodbye-to-west-coast-in-launch-landing-photos","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Falcon 9 bids temporary goodbye to West Coast in launch &amp; landing photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-falcon-9-bids-temporary-goodbye-to-west-coast-in-launch-landing-photos.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX has completed its last California Falcon 9 launch of 2019 and the company\u2019s official pictures of the mission are unexpectedly spectacular considering the near-zero visibility incurred by coastal fog.<\/p>\n<p>Lifting off on June 12th, Falcon 9 successfully delivered the Canadian Space Agency\u2019s Radarsat Constellation Mission (RCM) \u2013 likely weighing ~5000 kg (11,000 lb) \u2013 to a 600 km (370 mi) sun-synchronous orbit (SSO). Made up of three separate Earth observation satellites, RCM has a combined value greater than $1 billion and has thus become the single most expensive payload \u2013 perhaps by as much as a factor of two \u2013 SpaceX has ever launched. Although disappointing, RCM made for a spectacular temporary finale to SpaceX\u2019s West Coast launch activity, likely the company\u2019s last Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB) mission for at least 6\u20139 months.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.teslarati.com\/spacex-falcon-9-california-radarsat-launch-in-photos\/\" 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 has completed its last California Falcon 9 launch of 2019 and the company\u2019s official pictures of the mission are unexpectedly spectacular considering the near-zero visibility incurred by coastal fog. Lifting off on June 12th, Falcon 9 successfully delivered the Canadian Space Agency\u2019s Radarsat Constellation Mission (RCM) \u2013 likely weighing ~5000 kg (11,000 lb) \u2013 [\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-92018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92018","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=92018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}