{"id":1211957,"date":"2023-12-13T17:41:36","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T22:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1211957"},"modified":"2023-12-13T17:41:36","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T22:41:36","slug":"effects-of-falcon-heavy-launch-delay-could-ripple-to-downstream-missions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1211957","title":{"rendered":"Effects of Falcon Heavy launch delay could ripple to downstream missions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image full\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/fhroll1-980x653-1.jpe\" alt=\"A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket is seen outside the company's hangar at Kennedy Space Center, Florida.\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\" style=\"font-size:0.8em\">A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket is seen outside the company&#8217;s hangar at Kennedy Space Center, Florida. (credit: SpaceX)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>SpaceX and the US Space Force thought they were ready to launch the <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/space\/2023\/12\/spacex-looks-primed-to-launch-military-spaceplane-higher-than-ever-before\/\">military&#8217;s mysterious X-37B spaceplane<\/a> this week, but ground teams in Florida need to roll the Falcon Heavy rocket back into its hangar for servicing.<\/p>\n<p>This is expected to push back the launch until at least late December, perhaps longer. SpaceX and Space Force officials have not divulged details about the problems causing the delay.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX called off a launch attempt Monday night at NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to resolve a problem with a ground system. A senior Space Force official told Ars on Wednesday that additional issues will cause an additional delay in the launch.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1990914#p3\">Read 16 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1990914&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1990914\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Effects of Falcon Heavy launch delay could ripple to downstream missions<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket is seen outside the company&#8217;s hangar at Kennedy Space Center, Florida. (credit: SpaceX) SpaceX and the US Space Force thought they were ready to launch the military&#8217;s mysterious X-37B spaceplane this week, but ground teams &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1211957\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1211958,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1211957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1211957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1211958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1211957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1211957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1211957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}