{"id":84941,"date":"2011-04-26T22:30:46","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T14:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/russia-recovers-data-signal-from-geo-ik-2-satellite\/"},"modified":"2011-04-26T22:30:46","modified_gmt":"2011-04-26T14:30:46","slug":"russia-recovers-data-signal-from-geo-ik-2-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/russia-recovers-data-signal-from-geo-ik-2-satellite\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Recovers Data Signal from Geo-IK-2 Satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n[04-26-11] Russian Space Forces have re-established control of its Geo-IK-2 military satellite after losing contact with the spacecraft in February, <strong>Russian Defense Ministry <\/strong>officials announced April 25.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The officials said the Russian Space Agency has already received telemetric information from the satellite and that it has resumed collecting and analyzing data.<br \/>\nGeo-IK-2 was designed to help the Russian military draw 3-D maps of the Earth in order to locate the positions of various targets. The satellite\u2019s launch on a Rokot SS-18 intercontinental ballistic missile-based rocket, which was delayed from December due to technical malfunctions, placed Geo-IK-2 in a different orbit than the one planned for the mission. Russian military officials said ground control located the orbit the satellite entered and established contact shortly after.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Russia switched on two reserve Glonass-M satellites in order to compensate for the ones that were lost. Russian space agency Roscosmos plans to launch another three Glonass-M satellites on a Proton heavy carrier rocket later this year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[04-26-11] Russian Space Forces have re-established control of its Geo-IK-2 military satellite after losing contact with the spacecraft in February, Russian Defense Ministry officials announced April 25. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The officials said the Russian Space Agency has already received telemetric information from the satellite and that it has resumed collecting and analyzing data. Geo-IK-2 was designed [&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-84941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84941"}],"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=84941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}