{"id":133687,"date":"2022-01-07T04:22:38","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T12:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/inside-the-south-african-space-ecosystem"},"modified":"2022-01-07T04:22:38","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T12:22:38","slug":"inside-the-south-african-space-ecosystem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/inside-the-south-african-space-ecosystem","title":{"rendered":"Inside the South African Space Ecosystem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/inside-the-south-african-space-ecosystem.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa\u2019s space participation dates back to the 1960s when the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) first established its Deep Space Network Station, popularly known as DSS-51, in Hartebeesthoek. The station was established to assist NASA\u2019s interplanetary missions. The facility was then operated by the South African Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)\u2026 [\u2026].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa\u2019s space participation dates back to the 1960s when the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) first established its Deep Space Network Station, popularly known as DSS-51, in Hartebeesthoek. The station was established to assist NASA\u2019s interplanetary missions. The facility was then operated by the South African Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)\u2026 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133687","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\/650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}