{"id":150260,"date":"2018-01-31T21:20:38","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T02:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=150260"},"modified":"2018-01-31T21:20:38","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T02:20:38","slug":"royal-audience-as-spacex-launches-satellite-for-luxembourg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/01\/31\/royal-audience-as-spacex-launches-satellite-for-luxembourg\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal audience as SpaceX launches satellite for Luxembourg"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_150263\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-150263\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/SpaceX.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-150263\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/SpaceX.jpg\" alt=\"SpaceX had a royal audience as it launched a satellite for Luxembourg. (Pixabay photo)\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/SpaceX.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/SpaceX-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/SpaceX-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-150263\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SpaceX had a royal audience as it launched a satellite for Luxembourg. (Pixabay photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. \u2014 SpaceX had a royal audience as it launched a satellite for Luxembourg.<\/p>\n<p>The Falcon 9 rocket blasted off late Wednesday afternoon from Cape Canaveral, Florida, hoisting GovSat-1 for the government of Luxembourg and SES, the European country&#8217;s prime satellite operator. The satellite will support both military and civilian security efforts.<\/p>\n<p>Witnessing the launch were Luxembourg&#8217;s Prince Guillaume and his wife, Stephanie. The country&#8217;s prime minister, Xavier Bettel, and other high-ranking officials also were present.<\/p>\n<p>The rocket&#8217;s first-stage booster \u2014 which also flew last spring \u2014 was not recovered this time. Instead, it dropped into the Atlantic.<\/p>\n<p>With GovSat-1 now in orbit, SpaceX can focus on next week&#8217;s debut of its new, big Falcon Heavy rocket. The test flight is scheduled for Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. \u2014 SpaceX had a royal audience as it launched a satellite for Luxembourg. The Falcon 9 rocket &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":150263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45397,1092,3756],"class_list":["post-150260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-luxembourg","tag-satellite","tag-spacex","mauthors-marcia-dunn","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}