{"id":118690,"date":"2021-01-19T22:22:18","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T06:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/bransons-virgin-orbit-completes-first-successful-satellite-launch"},"modified":"2021-01-19T22:22:18","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T06:22:18","slug":"bransons-virgin-orbit-completes-first-successful-satellite-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/bransons-virgin-orbit-completes-first-successful-satellite-launch","title":{"rendered":"Branson\u2019s Virgin Orbit completes first successful satellite launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bransons-virgin-orbit-completes-first-successful-satellite-launch2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The mission launched from the Mojave Air and Space Port in California, with the drop zone taking place over the Pacific Ocean \u2014 and made LauncherOne the first liquid-fuelled and horizontally launched spacecraft to ever reach orbit.<\/p>\n<p>The small satellites were deployed into low Earth orbit at an altitude of about 500km, prompting Virgin Orbit\u2019s chief executive Dan Hart to declare: \u201cA new gateway to space has just sprung open.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mission launched from the Mojave Air and Space Port in California, with the drop zone taking place over the Pacific Ocean \u2014 and made LauncherOne the first liquid-fuelled and horizontally launched spacecraft to ever reach orbit. The small satellites were deployed into low Earth orbit at an altitude of about 500km, prompting Virgin Orbit\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118690","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\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}