{"id":15133,"date":"2012-05-19T09:13:22","date_gmt":"2012-05-19T14:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=15133"},"modified":"2012-06-18T12:28:16","modified_gmt":"2012-06-18T17:28:16","slug":"spacex-dragon-launch-aborted-rescheduled-to-tuesday-at-the-earliest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/05\/19\/spacex-dragon-launch-aborted-rescheduled-to-tuesday-at-the-earliest\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Dragon launch aborted, rescheduled to Tuesday at the earliest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2012\/05\/19\/falcon_launch_aborted\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lewis Page<\/a> at <em>The Register<\/em> on the scrubbed launch this morning:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Falcon 9 rocket from private space company SpaceX, intended to launch this morning and send a Dragon capsule loaded with supplies to the International Space Station, has failed to take off. The rocket&#8217;s computer aborted the launch automatically at almost the final possible moment, when its engines had already ignited but the vehicle had not yet been released from the pad.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The computer saw a parameter it didn&#8217;t like,&#8221; commented launch controllers after the abort, which saw the Falcon&#8217;s 9 main engines flare briefly into life as the countdown reached zero before cutting out again.<\/p>\n<p>The rocket is not thought to have been damaged by the aborted launch, and controllers announced a provisional plan to check the craft, refuel it and make another launch attempt on Tuesday morning at 03:44 AM local time (08:44 UK time).\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lewis Page at The Register on the scrubbed launch this morning: The Falcon 9 rocket from private space company SpaceX, intended to launch this morning and send a Dragon capsule loaded with supplies to the International Space Station, has failed to take off. The rocket&#8217;s computer aborted the launch automatically at almost the final possible [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,15,13],"tags":[825,722,69,716,708],"class_list":["post-15133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-science","category-technology","category-usa","tag-iss","tag-lowearthorbit","tag-nasa","tag-spacecraft","tag-spacex"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-3W5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15133"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15560,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15133\/revisions\/15560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}