{"id":22859,"date":"2022-05-16T09:56:03","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T13:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=22859"},"modified":"2022-05-17T11:02:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T15:02:00","slug":"spacex-launches-a-rocket-carrying-53-starlink-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/spacex-launches-a-rocket-carrying-53-starlink-satellites\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Launches a Rocket Carrying 53 Starlink Satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"arIndex_0\" data-ar-index=\"0\">SpaceX launched a rocket carrying 53 satellites for the Starlink internet constellation from California on Saturday. The deployment of all 53 satellites was completed less than an hour after launch.<\/p>\n<p id=\"arIndex_1\" data-ar-index=\"1\">The two-stage Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral spaceport in Florida at 2:10 a.m. on Saturday, returning to Earth and landing at sea about 8.5 minutes after liftoff aboard SpaceX&#8217;s &#8220;Just Read the Instructions&#8221; drone ship.<\/p>\n<p id=\"arIndex_2\" data-ar-index=\"2\">The launch on May 14 marks the second Starlink mission within a few days for SpaceX. Prior to that, the company used another Falcon 9 to launch 53 of the broadband spacecraft from Vandenberg, California, on May 13, and also acted its touchdown on a drone ship off Baja California.<\/p>\n<p id=\"arIndex_3\" data-ar-index=\"3\">Saturday&#8217;s launch and landing marks the fifth stage of the Falcon 9 rocket, which SpaceX officials say is a brand new rocket with no previous space missions.<\/p>\n<p id=\"arIndex_4\" data-ar-index=\"4\">According to SpaceX, Starlink, the company&#8217;s satellite internet constellation, is now available in 32 countries worldwide.<\/p>\n<p id=\"arIndex_5\" data-ar-index=\"5\">The sources for this piece include an article in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/spacex-starlink-launch-group-4-15\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SPACE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX launched a rocket carrying 53 satellites for the Starlink internet constellation from California on Saturday. The deployment of all 53 satellites was completed less than an hour after launch. The two-stage Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral spaceport in Florida at 2:10 a.m. on Saturday, returning to Earth and landing at sea [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,349,378,381],"tags":[78,77],"class_list":["post-22859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","category-development","category-digital-transformation","category-operations","tag-elon-musk","tag-spacex"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22859"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22861,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22859\/revisions\/22861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}