{"id":8051,"date":"2014-06-06T19:42:02","date_gmt":"2014-06-06T23:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8051"},"modified":"2021-10-02T15:32:15","modified_gmt":"2021-10-02T19:32:15","slug":"falcon-9-upper-stage-in-orbit-imaged-from-the-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8051","title":{"rendered":"Falcon 9 upper stage in orbit imaged from the ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ace astrophotographer\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ralfvandebergh.startje.be\/\" target=\"_d\" rel=\"noopener\">Ralf Vandebergh<\/a>\u00a0captured images of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacex.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SpaceX<\/a>\u00a0Falcon 9\u00a0upper stage as it passed over Belgium last April using a modest sized telescope. The Dragon had separated from the upper stage and gone\u00a0on\u00a0to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacex.com\/news\/2014\/05\/18\/crs-3-mission-overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">deliver cargo<\/a> to the ISS:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacesafetymagazine.com\/2014\/06\/05\/rocket-engine-seen-ground\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Rocket Engine Seen from the Ground &#8211; SpaceSafetyMagazine.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacesafetymagazine.com\/rocket-engine-seen-ground\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ace astrophotographer\u00a0Ralf Vandebergh\u00a0captured images of the SpaceX\u00a0Falcon 9\u00a0upper stage as it passed over Belgium last April using a modest sized telescope. The Dragon had separated from the upper stage and gone\u00a0on\u00a0to deliver cargo to the ISS:\u00a0A Rocket Engine Seen from the Ground &#8211; SpaceSafetyMagazine.com []<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[36,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-multiple-media","category-satellite-watching"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-25R","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16883,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=16883","url_meta":{"origin":8051,"position":0},"title":"Videos: SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket creates light show over Southern California","author":"TopSpacer","date":"October 9, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched from the Vandenberg AFB on Sunday night with an Argentine radar earth observation satellite. 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