{"id":81680,"date":"2013-01-17T01:36:21","date_gmt":"2013-01-16T17:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/russia-launches-military-satellites\/"},"modified":"2013-01-17T01:36:21","modified_gmt":"2013-01-16T17:36:21","slug":"russia-launches-military-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/russia-launches-military-satellites\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Launches Military Satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tags: Russia, Rokot, Satellite Launch<br \/>\nPublication: China.org.cn<br \/>\nPublication Date: 01\/16\/2013<\/p>\n<table width=\"150\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" cellpadding=\"6\" cellspacing=\"2\" margin=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"160\" height=\"225\" hspace=\"0\" align=\"right\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Assets\/Image\/Screen%20shot%202013-01-16%20at%202_14_04%20PM.png\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<i>Rokot booster<\/i><br \/>\nImage source: Orbiterch Space News\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Russia has launched three new military satellites on Tuesday, Jan. 15 from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in northern Russia. This is the country\u2019s first launch of 2013 and the Rokot rocket\u2019s second since February 2011 when a malfunction caused it to place a Geo-IK-2 satellite into the wrong orbit. <\/p>\n<p>This launch had been originally scheduled for the beginning of last month but it had to be postponed because of the rocket\u2019s Breeze booster malfunction.  <\/p>\n<p>The Rokot launcher weights 107 tons and is a derivative of the Russian RS-18 (SS-19 Stiletto) intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). It has two original ICBM lower stages and an upper stage for commercial payloads. The rocket is designed to take satellites that weight less than two tons into LEO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tags: Russia, Rokot, Satellite Launch Publication: China.org.cn Publication Date: 01\/16\/2013 Rokot booster Image source: Orbiterch Space News Russia has launched three new military satellites on Tuesday, Jan. 15 from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in northern Russia. This is the country\u2019s first launch of 2013 and the Rokot rocket\u2019s second since February 2011 when a malfunction caused [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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-81680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81680"}],"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=81680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}