{"id":1867,"date":"2018-06-25T23:02:24","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T23:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.gloop.org\/blog\/?p=1867"},"modified":"2018-06-25T23:02:24","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T23:02:24","slug":"air-force-certifies-falcon-heavy-orders-satellite-launch-for-2020-ars-technica-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.gloop.org\/blog\/2018\/06\/25\/air-force-certifies-falcon-heavy-orders-satellite-launch-for-2020-ars-technica-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Force certifies Falcon Heavy, orders satellite launch for 2020 | Ars Technica"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;I want to thank the Air Force for certifying Falcon Heavy.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2018\/06\/air-force-certifies-falcon-heavy-orders-satellite-launch-for-2020\/\">Air Force certifies Falcon Heavy, orders satellite launch for 2020 | Ars Technica<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forum.nasaspaceflight.com\/index.php?topic=45886.msg1832805#msg1832805\">Word on the street<\/a> is that ULA bid Atlas 5 551, *not* Delta 4 Heavy. In other words, this was a payload that single stick F9 could launch if they expended the first stage. If block 5 can be reused >3 times, it ought to be cheaper than single stick expendable and AIUI they&#8217;re pricing them accordingly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I want to thank the Air Force for certifying Falcon Heavy.&#8221; Source: Air Force certifies Falcon Heavy, orders satellite launch for 2020 | Ars Technica Word on the street is that ULA bid Atlas 5 551, *not* Delta 4 Heavy. In other words, this was a payload that single stick F9 could launch if they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.gloop.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.gloop.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.gloop.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.gloop.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.gloop.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.gloop.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1868,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.gloop.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867\/revisions\/1868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.gloop.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.gloop.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.gloop.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}