{"id":13747,"date":"2017-01-14T14:53:27","date_gmt":"2017-01-14T19:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=13747"},"modified":"2017-01-14T14:53:27","modified_gmt":"2017-01-14T19:53:27","slug":"videos-spacex-launches-10-satellites-and-lands-booster-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=13747","title":{"rendered":"Videos: SpaceX launches 10 satellites and lands booster stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacex.com\" target=\"_blank\">SpaceX<\/a> successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket with 10 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iridiumnext.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Iridium NEXT<\/a> satellites from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The first stage of the rocket also came back down for a landing onto a ocean platform ship. This was the first mission for SpaceX since the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacex.com\/news\/2016\/09\/01\/anomaly-updates\" target=\"_blank\">explosion on September 1st<\/a> during a test on a pad at Cape Canaveral.<\/p>\n<p>There will be 6 more F9 launches of Iridium NEXT satellites over the next year and a half or so. The satellites will replace the current set of aging Iridium satellites and provide improved global satellite telephone and data services as well as add new services such as aircraft tracking over the entire world including the oceans.<\/p>\n<p>Here are videos of today&#8217;s launch and landing:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C-HwYqbS8xU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PZ0EmJ9DlQk?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">====<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"\/\/rcm-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/cm?o=1&amp;p=12&amp;l=ur1&amp;category=echo&amp;banner=146870N94VDD8MAPHT02&amp;f=ifr&amp;linkID=1a66b7640a95795359e192e9c202c69f&amp;t=hobbyspace&amp;tracking_id=hobbyspace\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket with 10 Iridium NEXT satellites from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The first stage of the rocket also came back down for a landing onto a ocean platform ship. This was the first mission for SpaceX since the explosion on September 1st during a test &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=13747\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Videos: SpaceX launches 10 satellites and lands booster stage<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-rockets"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-3zJ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16444,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=16444","url_meta":{"origin":13747,"position":0},"title":"Videos: SpaceX Falcon 9 and Arianespace Ariane V rockets launch within short time","author":"TopSpacer","date":"July 25, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Two big rockets launched successfully this morning, lifting off within about 15 minutes of each other: ** A SpaceX Falcon 9 launched 10 Iridium NEXT satellites from Vandenberg AFB in California despite fog so heavy the rocket was not visible in ground cameras:\u00a0Iridium Completes Seventh Successful Iridium\u00ae NEXT Launch |\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Rockets&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Rockets","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=5"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/BoosterOnDroneShip-1024x576.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":17523,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=17523","url_meta":{"origin":13747,"position":1},"title":"Rockets: SpaceX Falcon 9 launch &#038; landing + China Long March 3B launches comm-sat","author":"TopSpacer","date":"January 13, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"** SpaceX on Friday launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg AFB in California with 10 Iridium NEXT satellites. 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