{"id":85416,"date":"2011-02-09T01:36:37","date_gmt":"2011-02-08T17:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/orbital-launches-u-s-military-spy-satellite-on-minotaur-1\/"},"modified":"2011-02-09T01:36:37","modified_gmt":"2011-02-08T17:36:37","slug":"orbital-launches-u-s-military-spy-satellite-on-minotaur-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/orbital-launches-u-s-military-spy-satellite-on-minotaur-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Orbital Launches U.S. Military Spy Satellite on Minotaur 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[02-08-11] <strong>Orbital Sciences<\/strong> launched a secret U.S. government payload Feb. 5 aboard a Minotaur 1 rocket from the Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., Orbital announced Feb. 7.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The rocket\u2019s payload, developed for the<strong> U.S. National Reconnaissance Office<\/strong> (NRO), is part of the NROL-66 mission\u2019s Rapid Pathfinder Program, which aims to test spy technology in space. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u201cThis particular payload carries some of the work we do in techniques and methods to improve intelligence collection. All part of our work to keep improving the value of our data,\u201d NRO Spokesman Rick Oborn said in a statement. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The mission was the 20th launch for the Minotaur rocket line since 2000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[02-08-11] Orbital Sciences launched a secret U.S. government payload Feb. 5 aboard a Minotaur 1 rocket from the Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., Orbital announced Feb. 7. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The rocket\u2019s payload, developed for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), is part of the NROL-66 mission\u2019s Rapid Pathfinder Program, which aims to test spy technology in [&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-85416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85416"}],"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=85416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}