{"id":162240,"date":"2023-04-15T16:22:18","date_gmt":"2023-04-15T21:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/kenya-launches-first-operational-satellite-into-space"},"modified":"2023-04-15T16:22:18","modified_gmt":"2023-04-15T21:22:18","slug":"kenya-launches-first-operational-satellite-into-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/kenya-launches-first-operational-satellite-into-space","title":{"rendered":"Kenya launches first operational satellite into space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/kenya-launches-first-operational-satellite-into-space2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NAIROBI, April 14 (Reuters) \u2014 Kenya launched its first operational earth observation satellite on Saturday onboard a SpaceX rocket from the United States, a live feed from Elon Musk\u2019s rocket company showed.<\/p>\n<p>The satellite, developed by nine Kenyan engineers, will collect agricultural and environmental data, including on floods, drought and wildfires, that authorities plan to use for disaster management and to combat food insecurity.<\/p>\n<p>The Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Taifa-1 satellite, took off at about 648 GMT without incident from Vandenberg Base in California, after three postponements due to bad weather.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, April 14 (Reuters) \u2014 Kenya launched its first operational earth observation satellite on Saturday onboard a SpaceX rocket from the United States, a live feed from Elon Musk\u2019s rocket company showed. The satellite, developed by nine Kenyan engineers, will collect agricultural and environmental data, including on floods, drought and wildfires, that authorities plan to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1506,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-food","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162240","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=162240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}