{"id":5379,"date":"2018-04-04T08:21:23","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T08:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/?p=5379"},"modified":"2018-04-04T08:21:23","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T08:21:23","slug":"spacex-launches-rocket-carrying-10-communication-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/2018\/04\/04\/spacex-launches-rocket-carrying-10-communication-satellites\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launches rocket carrying 10 communication satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>American aerospace company SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying 10 telecommunications satellites from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in Southern California.<!--more-->The Iridium-NEXT satellites were launched Friday morning for McLean, Virginia-based satellite operator Iridium Communications, Efe reported.<\/p>\n<p>The Iridium-5 NEXT Mission marked the fifth set of 10 satellites that Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX has launched for its customer\u2019s Iridium NEXT global satellite constellation.<\/p>\n<p>The contract calls for SpaceX to launch a total of 75 satellites for Iridium.<\/p>\n<p>The launch took place on schedule at 7:13 am.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuccessful deployment of all 10 @IridiumComm NEXT satellites to low-Earth orbit confirmed,\u201d Musk\u2019s company said on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX\u2019s next launch is scheduled for April 2, when another Falcon 9 rocket will be used in a cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station.<\/p>\n<p>That rocket is scheduled to lift off Monday afternoon from Cape Canaveral, Florida.<\/p>\n<p><strong>IANS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Picture source: Alamy Image<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American aerospace company SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying 10 telecommunications satellites from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in Southern California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":5380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[103,49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5379"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5381,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5379\/revisions\/5381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}