{"id":573,"date":"2007-03-23T16:39:29","date_gmt":"2007-03-23T21:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=573"},"modified":"2007-03-23T16:39:29","modified_gmt":"2007-03-23T21:39:29","slug":"private-rocketship-falcon-1-flies-reaches-space-but-fails-to-reach-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=573","title":{"rendered":"Private Rocketship Falcon 1 Flies, Reaches Space, But Fails to Reach Orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"203\" src=\"\/media\/SpaceXLogo.jpg\"  height=\"30\" style=\"width: 203px; height: 30px\" \/>Though not directly\u00a0applicable to the Space Elevator, this Planetary Society <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetary.org\/news\/2007\/0320_Private_Rocketship_Falcon_1_Flies_But.html\">article<\/a> does have relevance\u00a0because of the future plans for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacex.com\/\">SpaceX<\/a>.\u00a0 One of their\u00a0future models, the Falcon 9 Heavy, is to be designed to hoist 62,500 pounds to LEO and 27,400 pounds to GTO (Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit).<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Edwards projects that the initial Space Elevator configuration will weigh about 80 tons, so that puts this well into range of just a few Falcon 9 Heavy lifts.<\/p>\n<p>If SpaceX can pull this off, this would make it the second private company (in addition to Zenit) to be\u00a0able to boost these heavy payloads into orbit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though not directly\u00a0applicable to the Space Elevator, this Planetary Society article does have relevance\u00a0because of the future plans for SpaceX.\u00a0 One of their\u00a0future models, the Falcon 9 Heavy, is to be designed to hoist 62,500 pounds to LEO and 27,400 pounds to GTO (Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit). Dr. Edwards projects that the initial Space Elevator configuration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}