{"id":1476,"date":"2020-03-19T23:16:43","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T23:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/?p=1476"},"modified":"2020-03-19T23:16:45","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T23:16:45","slug":"spacex-falcon-9-lifts-off-safely-but-suffers-an-early-engine-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/spacex-falcon-9-lifts-off-safely-but-suffers-an-early-engine-shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Falcon 9 Lifts off Safely, but Suffers an Early Engine Shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" src=\"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/400px-Falcon_Heavy_Demo_Mission_40126461851_-_cropped.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1477\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/400px-Falcon_Heavy_Demo_Mission_40126461851_-_cropped.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/400px-Falcon_Heavy_Demo_Mission_40126461851_-_cropped-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched <a href=\"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/\">from NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida<\/a> and delivered its sixth batch of 60 Starlink internet satellites to orbit despite an engine failure. The issue likely contributed to the loss of the first stage during the landing attempt. Elon Musk says SpaceX will investigate Falcon 9 rocket engine failure before launching again. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>The Falcon 9 rocket took off on Wednesday morning. However,\nafter making the historic fifth flight to orbit, the first stage got lost\nduring a landing attempt on a drone ship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A video from shortly before the rocket&#8217;s first stage\nengines shut off appears to show something not going quite right. SpaceX is planning\nto grow its constellation for the internet broadband system as it plans to\nlaunch for customers in the U.S. and Canada starting later this year. The lit\noff brings SpaceX\u2019s total Starlink constellation size to 360 spacecraft, making\nthe company the world\u2019s largest private satellite operator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The launch yesterday used a Falcon 9 first-stage booster that flew for its fifth time, marking a record for SpaceX when it comes to re-using this component of its launch system. The launch also included yet another recovery attempt for the booster, but unfortunately, the first stage failed to complete the landing as planned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 229-foot-tall Falcon 9 rocket was set to deploy 60\nmore Starlink satellites for SpaceX\u2019s planned Internet service, joining the 300\nStarlink spacecraft launched by five previous rockets since last May. The\ncompany is aiming to deploy more than 1,500 of the quarter-ton spacecraft to\nprovide global service by 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2020\/03\/spacex-set-to-launch-the-same-falcon-9-rocket-for-the-fifth-time\/\">Ars technical<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched from NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida and delivered its sixth batch of 60 Starlink internet satellites to orbit despite an engine failure. The issue likely contributed to the loss of the first stage &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/spacex-falcon-9-lifts-off-safely-but-suffers-an-early-engine-shutdown\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1478,"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476\/revisions\/1478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}