{"id":239222,"date":"2016-01-25T12:04:39","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T16:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123467492"},"modified":"2016-01-25T12:04:39","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T16:04:39","slug":"spacex-falcon-9-upgrade-certified-for-national-security-space-launches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=239222","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Falcon 9 upgrade certified for National Security Space launches"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123467492\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" style=\"margin-right:15px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/shared\/media\/photodb\/thumbnails\/2016\/01\/151220-F-ZZ999-101.jpg\"<\/img><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Lt. Gen. Samuel Greaves, Air Force Program Executive Officer for Space and Space and Missile Systems Center commander, updated the certified baseline configuration of SpaceX&#8217;s Falcon 9 Launch System to Falcon 9 Upgrade, for use in National Security Space (NSS) missions. The baseline configuration of the Falcon 9 Launch System was updated to the Falcon 9 Upgrade on Jan. 25.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX is eligible for award of NSS launch missions, in accordance with the updated Certification Letter, as one of two currently certified launch providers.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123467492\">more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123467492\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/shared\/media\/photodb\/thumbnails\/2016\/01\/151220-F-ZZ999-101.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Lt. Gen. Samuel Greaves, Air Force Program Executive Officer for Space and Space and Missile Systems Center commander, updated the certified baseline configuration of SpaceX&#8217;s Falcon 9 Launch System to Falcon 9 Upgrade, for use in National Security Space (NSS) missions. The baseline configuration of the Falcon 9 Launch System was updated to the Falcon 9 Upgrade on Jan. 25.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX is eligible for award of NSS launch missions, in accordance with the updated Certification Letter, as one of two currently certified launch providers.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123467492\">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-239222","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\/239222","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=239222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239223,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239222\/revisions\/239223"}],"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=239222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=239222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=239222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}