{"id":238831,"date":"2015-12-21T22:42:02","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T02:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123465917"},"modified":"2015-12-21T22:42:02","modified_gmt":"2015-12-22T02:42:02","slug":"45th-space-wing-successfully-launches-orbcomm-historically-lands-first-stage-booster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=238831","title":{"rendered":"45th Space Wing successfully launches ORBCOMM; historically lands first stage booster"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123465917\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" style=\"margin-right:15px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/shared\/media\/photodb\/thumbnails\/2015\/12\/151221-F-ZZ999-003.jpg\"<\/img><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The U.S. Air Force&#8217;s 45th Space Wing successfully supported the launch of a Falcon 9 rocket during its mission to put ORBCOMM&#8217;s OG2 communications satellites in to orbit Dec. 21 at 8:29 p.m. from Space Launch Complex 40 here.<\/p>\n<p>Then just nine minutes following the launch was the first-ever successful landing of the Falcon 9&#8217;s first stage booster at Landing Zone 1 (formerly Complex 13) at 8:38 p.m. EST on CCAFS.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today clearly placed the exclamation mark on 2015, by closing out another successful year for the Eastern Range in historic fashion,&#8221; said Brig. Gen. Wayne Monteith, 45th Space Wing commander and launch decision authority. &#8220;This launch and flyback speaks volumes to the hard work this team puts in every single day driving innovation and success. This was a first for us at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, and I can&#8217;t even begin to describe the excitement the team feels right now having been a part of this historic first-stage rocket landing.&#8221;<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123465917\">more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123465917\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/shared\/media\/photodb\/thumbnails\/2015\/12\/151221-F-ZZ999-003.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The U.S. Air Force&#8217;s 45th Space Wing successfully supported the launch of a Falcon 9 rocket during its mission to put ORBCOMM&#8217;s OG2 communications satellites in to orbit Dec. 21 at 8:29 p.m. from Space Launch Complex 40 here.<\/p>\n<p>Then just nine minutes following the launch was the first-ever successful landing of the Falcon 9&#8217;s first stage booster at Landing Zone 1 (formerly Complex 13) at 8:38 p.m. EST on CCAFS.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today clearly placed the exclamation mark on 2015, by closing out another successful year for the Eastern Range in historic fashion,&#8221; said Brig. Gen. Wayne Monteith, 45th Space Wing commander and launch decision authority. &#8220;This launch and flyback speaks volumes to the hard work this team puts in every single day driving innovation and success. This was a first for us at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, and I can&#8217;t even begin to describe the excitement the team feels right now having been a part of this historic first-stage rocket landing.&#8221;<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123465917\">more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-force-space-command"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=238831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238832,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238831\/revisions\/238832"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=238831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=238831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=238831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}