{"id":118735,"date":"2015-02-12T07:45:59","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T05:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=118735"},"modified":"2015-02-12T07:47:40","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T05:47:40","slug":"spacex-launches-falcon-rocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/118735-spacex-launches-falcon-rocket.html","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launches Falcon rocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX has launched an observatory inspired by former Vice President Al Gore toward a solar-storm lookout point a million miles away.<\/p>\n<p>The unmanned Falcon rocket blasted off Wednesday from Cape Canaveral, Florida. It was the company&#8217;s third try to launch the Deep Space Climate Observatory for NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Air Force. Gore returned for the sunset liftoff.<\/p>\n<p>This time, the wind stayed within safety limits. But rough seas forced SpaceX to cancel its effort to land the leftover booster on an ocean platform. Last month&#8217;s demo ended in flames.<\/p>\n<p>The observatory, called DSCOVR, will provide advance warnings of incoming geomagnetic storms as well as continuous Earth views. It&#8217;s the reincarnated form of a satellite dreamed up by Gore 17 years ago.<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX has launched an observatory inspired by former Vice President Al Gore toward a solar-storm lookout point a million miles away<\/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":[36,28829,11375],"class_list":["post-118735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-active","tag-falcon","tag-spacex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118735"}],"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=118735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118735\/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=118735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}