{"id":100366,"date":"2020-01-01T12:45:56","date_gmt":"2020-01-01T20:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/final-rockot-booster-launches-russian-satellites-into-orbit"},"modified":"2020-01-01T12:45:56","modified_gmt":"2020-01-01T20:45:56","slug":"final-rockot-booster-launches-russian-satellites-into-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/final-rockot-booster-launches-russian-satellites-into-orbit","title":{"rendered":"Final Rockot Booster Launches Russian Satellites Into Orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-UFKmMjJze4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The final Rockot booster converted from an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/19601-how-intercontinental-ballistic-missiles-work-infographic.html\">intercontinental ballistic missile<\/a> launched into space Friday (Dec. 27) carrying a trio Russian satellites and a military payload into orbit.<\/p>\n<p>The Rockot, a launch vehicle based on Russia\u2019s RS-18 ballistic missile, launched three Gonets-M communications satellites into space from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia. The rocket also reportedly carried a military payload called Blits-M, a glass sphere designed to serve as a laser reflector, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.russianspaceweb.com\/gonets-block15.html\" target=\"_blank\">according to <a href=\"http:\/\/Russianspaceweb.com\">Russianspaceweb.com<\/a><\/a>, which tracks the Russian space industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The final Rockot booster converted from an intercontinental ballistic missile launched into space Friday (Dec. 27) carrying a trio Russian satellites and a military payload into orbit. The Rockot, a launch vehicle based on Russia\u2019s RS-18 ballistic missile, launched three Gonets-M communications satellites into space from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia. The rocket also [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}