{"id":118645,"date":"2015-02-11T07:35:56","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T05:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=118645"},"modified":"2015-02-11T07:37:34","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T05:37:34","slug":"the-dragon-has-landed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/118645-the-dragon-has-landed.html","title":{"rendered":"The Dragon has landed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Dragon has landed near Southern California.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX says its unmanned Dragon spaceship splashed down in the Pacific west of Mexico&#8217;s Baja Peninsula Wednesday afternoon after a supply run to the International Space Station.<\/p>\n<p>It carried 5,000 pounds (2,250 kilograms) of groceries and belated Christmas presents to the station last month. An earlier supply ship was destroyed in an October launch explosion.<\/p>\n<p>Dragon returned with science samples and broken equipment, including spacesuit parts.<\/p>\n<p>The landing came about 90 minutes after SpaceX scrubbed the planned Florida launch of a weather satellite called the Deep Space Climate Observatory.<\/p>\n<p>The company says high-atmosphere winds gusting to 115 mph (185 kph) made it unsafe to launch from Cape Canaveral. It&#8217;s the second delay in three days.<\/p>\n<p>Another try is planned for Wednesday.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More SpaceX news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/general\/118433-spacex-satellite-launch-rocket-landing-delayed.html\">SpaceX satellite launch, rocket landing delayed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/117182-google-helps-spacex-raise-1-billion.html\">Google helps SpaceX raise $1 billion<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/general\/116586-spacexs-latest-mission-success-and-failure.html\">SpaceX\u2019s latest mission: success and failure<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX says its unmanned Dragon spaceship splashed down in the Pacific west of Mexico&#8217;s Baja Peninsula Wednesday afternoon after a supply run to the International Space Station<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":73050,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[36,11375],"class_list":["post-118645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-active","tag-spacex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118645"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}