{"id":13123,"date":"2012-05-22T01:45:37","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T23:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=13123"},"modified":"2012-05-22T12:20:05","modified_gmt":"2012-05-22T10:20:05","slug":"spacex-aims-for-tuesday-take-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/13123\/spacex-aims-for-tuesday-take-off\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX aims for Tuesday take-off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Private rocket maker <a title=\"SpaceX - Space Exploration Technologies Corporation\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/2554-SpaceX\">SpaceX<\/a> is shooting for a Tuesday (22 May 2012) liftoff after fixing the engine problem that led to a launch abort over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. company is the first private business to attempt to launch a spacecraft with supplies to the International Space Station.<\/p>\n<p>The new launch time for the historic flight is 3:44 a.m. (0744 GMT). Forecasters say there&#8217;s an 80 percent chance the weather in Cape Canaveral will cooperate.<\/p>\n<p>All nine engines on the Falcon 9 rocket ignited during the first launch attempt Saturday. But with just a half-second remaining before liftoff, on-board computers shut everything down.<\/p>\n<p>The problem was traced to a faulty engine valve. Engineers put in a new valve and declared the rocket ready to fly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Private rocket maker SpaceX is shooting for a Tuesday liftoff after fixing the engine problem that led to a launch abort over the weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,2662,1510,2660],"class_list":["post-13123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-active","tag-elon-musk","tag-iss","tag-spacex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13123"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13192,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13123\/revisions\/13192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}