{"id":152992,"date":"2022-12-16T21:22:19","date_gmt":"2022-12-17T03:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/spacex-launches-nasa-satellite-to-study-worlds-water-sticks-rocket-landing"},"modified":"2022-12-16T21:22:19","modified_gmt":"2022-12-17T03:22:19","slug":"spacex-launches-nasa-satellite-to-study-worlds-water-sticks-rocket-landing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/spacex-launches-nasa-satellite-to-study-worlds-water-sticks-rocket-landing","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launches NASA satellite to study world\u2019s water, sticks rocket landing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-launches-nasa-satellite-to-study-worlds-water-sticks-rocket-landing2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The first satellite specifically designed to conduct a global survey of Earth\u2019s surface water has taken to the skies.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/18853-spacex.html\">SpaceX<\/a> Falcon 9 rocket launched the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite before dawn on Wednesday (Dec. 16) from Space Launch Complex-4E at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/34147-vandenberg-air-force-base.html\">Vandenberg Space Force Base<\/a> in California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first satellite specifically designed to conduct a global survey of Earth\u2019s surface water has taken to the skies. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite before dawn on Wednesday (Dec. 16) from Space Launch Complex-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":605,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152992","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\/605"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}