{"id":66835,"date":"2019-01-25T14:13:43","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T14:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=66835"},"modified":"2019-01-25T14:13:49","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T14:13:49","slug":"falcon-9-rocket-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/falcon-9-rocket-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Falcon 9 Rocket launch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: Which of the following statements are correct in reference to the Falcon 9 rocket launch?<br> 1) It was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California by NASA.<br> 2) The rocket carried a constellation of 10 Iridium Communication Satellite.<br> 3) This was the eighth and final launch of the Iridium NEXT project.<br> 4) The fleet consists of a total of 75 satellites.<br> Correct option:<\/strong><br> (a) 1, 2 and 3<br> (b) 2, 3 and 4<br> (c) 1, 3 and 4<br> (d) All of the above.<br><strong> Answer: (b)<br> Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>A private American space company SpaceX launched Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California and delivered 10 satellites to low-Earth orbit for Iridium.<\/li><li>The 10 satellite launched represents the eighth and final unit of Iridium NEXT satellite launched by SpaceX. This is final in a series of 75 next-generation communication satellite owned and operated by Iridium. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Iridium NEXT project:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The whole project of the Iridium NEXT roughly worth $3 billion. Out of the total of 75 satellites, 66 will be operational and 9 will serve as in-orbit spares. <\/li><li>Iridium NEXT will replace the world&#8217;s largest commercial satellite network of low-earth orbit satellites in what will be one of the largest &#8220;tech upgrades&#8221; in history. <\/li><li>Iridium NEXT will enable the development of new and innovative products and solutions across Iridium&#8217;s vast partner ecosystem. Iridium Certus, the next-generation multi-service communications platform enabled by Iridium NEXT, will deliver faster speeds and higher throughputs across multiple industry verticals.<\/li><li>Iridium is the only mobile voice and data satellite communications network that spans the entire globe. Iridium enables real time connections between people, organizations and assets to and from anywhere.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Falcon 9:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Falcon 9 is a two-staged rocket of designed and developed by SpaceX. It is the first orbital class rocket capable of re-flight which reduces cost of projects.<\/li><li>It consists of 9 Engines and powered by Merlin engines with Burn Time of 162 seconds. <\/li><li>Falcon 9 made history in 2012 when it delivered Dragon into the correct orbit for rendezvous with the International Space Station, making SpaceX the first commercial company ever to visit the station.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Links:<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aerospace-technology.com\/news\/spacex-launches-iridium-satellites\/\">https:\/\/www.aerospace-technology.com\/news\/spacex-launches-iridium-satellites\/<br><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spacex.com\/sites\/spacex\/files\/spacex_iridium1_press_kit.pdf\">https:\/\/www.spacex.com\/sites\/spacex\/files\/spacex_iridium1_press_kit.pdf<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spacex.com\/falcon9\">https:\/\/www.spacex.com\/falcon9<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Which of the following statements are correct in reference to the Falcon 9 rocket launch? 1) It was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California by NASA. 2) The rocket carried a constellation of 10 Iridium Communication Satellite. 3) This was the eighth and final launch of the Iridium NEXT project. 4) The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":66837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1123],"tags":[3067],"class_list":["post-66835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-snes","tag-scientific"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}