{"id":92628,"date":"2019-06-25T00:42:48","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T07:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/spacex-launches-hefty-rocket-with-24-satellites"},"modified":"2019-06-25T00:42:48","modified_gmt":"2019-06-25T07:42:48","slug":"spacex-launches-hefty-rocket-with-24-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/spacex-launches-hefty-rocket-with-24-satellites","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launches hefty rocket with 24 satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-launches-hefty-rocket-with-24-satellites2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) \u2014 SpaceX launched its heftiest rocket with 24 research satellites Tuesday, a middle-of-the-night rideshare featuring a deep space atomic clock, solar sail, a clean and green rocket fuel testbed, and even human ashes.<\/p>\n<p>It was the third flight of a Falcon Heavy rocket, but the first ordered up by the military.<\/p>\n<p>The Defense Department mission, dubbed STP-2 for Space Test Program, is expected to provide data to certify the Falcon Heavy \u2014 and reused boosters \u2014 for future national security launches. It marked the military\u2019s first ride on a recycled rocket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) \u2014 SpaceX launched its heftiest rocket with 24 research satellites Tuesday, a middle-of-the-night rideshare featuring a deep space atomic clock, solar sail, a clean and green rocket fuel testbed, and even human ashes. It was the third flight of a Falcon Heavy rocket, but the first ordered up by the military. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,9,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-military","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92628","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=92628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}