{"id":106553,"date":"2020-05-04T23:22:56","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T06:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/iran-launches-its-first-military-satellite"},"modified":"2020-05-04T23:22:56","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T06:22:56","slug":"iran-launches-its-first-military-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/iran-launches-its-first-military-satellite","title":{"rendered":"Iran launches its first military satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/iran-launches-its-first-military-satellite.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As the world grapples with the coronavirus pandemic and historically low oil prices, the missile launch may signal a new willingness to take risks by Iran.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>It said the satellite \u2014 dubbed the Nour \u2014 was deployed from the Qassed two-stage launcher from the Markazi desert, a vast expanse in Iran\u2019s central plateau.<\/p>\n<p>The satellite \u201corbited the Earth at 425km [264 miles]\u201d, said the website. \u201cThis action will be a great success and a new development in the field of space for Islamic Iran.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The IRGC called it the first military satellite ever launched by Tehran. It used a Ghased, or \u201cMessenger\u201d, satellite carrier to put the device into space, a previously unheard-of system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the world grapples with the coronavirus pandemic and historically low oil prices, the missile launch may signal a new willingness to take risks by Iran. It said the satellite \u2014 dubbed the Nour \u2014 was deployed from the Qassed two-stage launcher from the Markazi desert, a vast expanse in Iran\u2019s central plateau. The satellite [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106553","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\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}