{"id":197653,"date":"2017-02-07T14:49:10","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T12:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=197653"},"modified":"2017-02-07T14:53:15","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T12:53:15","slug":"spacex-plans-to-launch-missions-every-2-3-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/science\/197653-spacex-plans-to-launch-missions-every-2-3-weeks.html","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX plans to launch missions every 2-3 weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0new launch pad is set to enter service for\u00a0SpaceX at NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center next week, allowing SpaceX to launch rockets at its fastest rate since 2010, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-space-spacex-idUSKBN15M03N\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell told Reuters they plan to launch missions using its Falcon 9 rockets every two or three weeks.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after SpaceX&#8217;s return to flight on 14\u00a0January, complete with a drone ship landing, following\u00a0the failure of one of its rockets during a pre-launch test.<\/p>\n<p>While\u00a0test firing the Falcon 9 rocket\u00a0on 1 September, it exploded, taking its payload with it &#8211;\u00a0a\u00a0Spacecom satellite which Facebook was going to use to provide Internet access to areas in Africa &#8211; and damaging the launch pad.<\/p>\n<p>Shotwell told Reuters that\u00a0repairs to the launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station are underway, and should cost less than half\u00a0of a new launch pad &#8211; which is about\u00a0$100 million.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/science\/196772-spacex-a-step-closer-to-launching-re-used-rocket.html\">SpaceX a step closer to launching re-used rocket<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new launch pad is set to enter service for SpaceX at Cape Canaveral next week, allowing SpaceX to launch rockets at its fastest rate since 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":156921,"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":[31750],"tags":[41155,22983,11375],"class_list":["post-197653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","tag-gwynne-shotwell","tag-national-aeronautics-and-space-administration-nasa","tag-spacex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197653"}],"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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197709,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197653\/revisions\/197709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}