{"id":62343,"date":"2019-05-29T22:21:37","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T14:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/despite-lightening-strike-russia-launches-navigation-satellite-2\/"},"modified":"2019-05-29T22:21:37","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T14:21:37","slug":"despite-lightening-strike-russia-launches-navigation-satellite-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/despite-lightening-strike-russia-launches-navigation-satellite-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite Lightening Strike, Russia Launches Navigation Satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>The recent launch of Russia\u2019s <strong>Roscosmos<\/strong> Soyuz 2-1b rocket from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome witnessed some dramatic events after the rocket was struck by a bolt of lightning as it made its ascent. However, the lightning did not affect the rocket\u2019s course and it successfully completed its 3.5 hours journey to reach earth\u2019s low-orbit where it delivered the payload, a Glonass-M navigation satellite.<\/p>\n<p>Soon after the lightning strike, Dmitry Rogozin, chief of Russia\u2019s Roscosmos space agency wrote on Twitter, \u201cLightning is not an obstacle to you.\u201d The space agency chief also congratulated the flight team who was in charge of this rocket launch.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Read More at International Business Times &gt;&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent launch of Russia\u2019s Roscosmos Soyuz 2-1b rocket from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome witnessed some dramatic events after the rocket was struck by a bolt of lightning as it made its ascent. However, the lightning did not affect the rocket\u2019s course and it successfully completed its 3.5 hours journey to reach earth\u2019s low-orbit where it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62343"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}