{"id":204596,"date":"2017-03-28T09:32:03","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T07:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=204596"},"modified":"2017-03-28T09:33:22","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T07:33:22","slug":"spacex-prepares-to-launch-its-first-used-rocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/science\/204596-spacex-prepares-to-launch-its-first-used-rocket.html","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX prepares to launch its first used rocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX is a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/36232-spacex-tests-used-rocket-before-landmark-launch.html\" target=\"_blank\">days away<\/a><\/strong> from\u00a0conducting its first launch of\u00a0a used Falcon 9 rocket.<\/p>\n<p>The Falcon 9 first stage is the first booster which the space company managed to successfully land on an ocean barge, following the delivery of its payload into space.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX is set to launch the Falcon 9 rocket on 30 March, and the booster will transport an SES-10 communications satellite into geostationary orbit.<\/p>\n<p>If the mission is successful, SpaceX will have made a major step towards its aim of reusing rockets and saving a large portion of the costs involved in launching a payload into orbit.<\/p>\n<p>The Falcon 9 launch will mark the first time anyone has launched a used rocket into orbit.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/science\/204566-elon-musk-launches-neuralink-to-link-brains-to-computers.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Elon Musk launches Neuralink to link brains to computers<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX is days away from conducting its first launch of a used Falcon 9 rocket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":161122,"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":[34625,42230,11375],"class_list":["post-204596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","tag-falcon-9","tag-re-usable","tag-spacex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204596"}],"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=204596"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204610,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204596\/revisions\/204610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}