{"id":13396,"date":"2023-01-16T12:23:34","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T12:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=13396"},"modified":"2023-01-16T12:23:34","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T12:23:34","slug":"spacex-launches-fifth-falcon-heavy-mission-carrying-military-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/technology\/spacex-launches-fifth-falcon-heavy-mission-carrying-military-satellites\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launches fifth Falcon Heavy mission, carrying military satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX launches fifth Falcon Heavy mission, carrying military satellites. SpaceX launched its fifth Falcon Heavy rocket mission, USSF-67, on Sunday from Florida&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kennedyspacecenter.com\/\">Kennedy Space Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The rocket made liftoff at 5:56 p.m. EST, with 5 million pounds of thrust.<\/p>\n<p>The payload included two military satellite systems: The Continuous Broadcast Augmenting SATCOM and Long Duration Propulsive ESPA.<\/p>\n<p>The first system is a geostationary relay satellite which enhances communication abilities to support U.S. security leaders. The second provides data to the U.S. Space Force and carries and directs smaller payloads for the program.<\/p>\n<p>The payloads also include prototype systems used for secure space-to-ground communication.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/technology\/nasa-spacex-to-study-ways-to-boost-orbit-of-hubble-telescope.html\">NASA &amp; SpaceX to study ways to boost orbit of Hubble telescope<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sunday s Falcon Heavy launch was the second in the last three months following a three-year gap between the third and fourth missions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a complex mission and truly represents what Assured Access to Space is about and is why we re so enthusiastic about this upcoming launch&#8230;our second Falcon Heavy in just months,&#8221; Maj. Gen. Stephen Purdy, program executive officer for Assured Access to Space, said according to SatNews.<\/p>\n<p>On Nov. 1, a rocket was launched for the USSF-44 mission, deploying two spacecrafts into orbit: the TETRA 1 microsatellite developed by Boeing subsidiary Millennium Space Systems for the U.S. military.<\/p>\n<p>Four more Falcon Heavy launches are planned for this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX launches fifth Falcon Heavy mission, carrying military satellites. SpaceX launched its fifth Falcon Heavy rocket mission, USSF-67, on Sunday from Florida&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center. The rocket made liftoff at 5:56 p.m. EST, with 5 million pounds of thrust. The payload included two military satellite systems: The Continuous Broadcast Augmenting SATCOM and Long Duration Propulsive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":13397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2204],"class_list":["post-13396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}