{"id":5112,"date":"2016-09-02T08:55:12","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T22:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=5112"},"modified":"2016-09-02T08:55:13","modified_gmt":"2016-09-01T22:55:13","slug":"spacex-rocket-explodes-on-launchpad-destroying-facebook-satellite-in-the-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/spacex-rocket-explodes-on-launchpad-destroying-facebook-satellite-in-the-process\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX rocket explodes on launchpad destroying Facebook satellite in the process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"SpaceX - Static Fire Anomaly - AMOS-6 - 09-01-2016\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_BgJEXQkjNQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Last night, a routine test firing of a SpaceX rocket ended in a fiery explosion, destroying both the vehicle and its payload, a communications satellite that Facebook planned to use for beaming free internet down to Africa.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>[&#8230;]\u00a0the company may end up choosing to ground its Falcon 9 rockets altogether. That means that the future of SpaceX, for now, is quite uncertain. That doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s going out of business. But things will never be the same.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>BOOM!<\/p>\n<p>Not the best situation for SpaceX &#8211; who&#8217;ve been doing quite well when it comes to landing their rockets lately.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"source-link\"><span class=\"source-link\">Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmodo.com.au\/2016\/09\/what-todays-explosion-means-for-the-future-of-spacex\/\">Watch: SpaceX Explosion Destroys Facebook&#8217;s First Satellite | Gizmodo Australia<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last night, a routine test firing of a SpaceX rocket ended in a fiery explosion, destroying both the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5112"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}