{"id":186995,"date":"2024-04-08T20:24:18","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T01:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/south-korea-launches-second-military-spy-satellite"},"modified":"2024-04-08T20:24:18","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T01:24:18","slug":"south-korea-launches-second-military-spy-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/south-korea-launches-second-military-spy-satellite","title":{"rendered":"South Korea launches second military spy satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/south-korea-launches-second-military-spy-satellite.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Koreas each launched their first spy satellites last year \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/flashpoints\/2023\/11\/21\/north-korea-claims-it-successfully-put-spy-satellite-into-orbit\/\" target=\"_blank\">North Korea in November<\/a> and South Korea in December \u2014 amid heightened animosities. They said their satellites would boost their abilities to monitor each other and enhance their own missile attack capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>South Korea\u2019s second spy satellite was launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Sunday evening local time, which was Monday morning in Seoul.<\/p>\n<p>South Korea\u2019s Defense Ministry said it confirmed the satellite entered orbit and communicated with an overseas ground station after separation from a rocket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Koreas each launched their first spy satellites last year \u2014 North Korea in November and South Korea in December \u2014 amid heightened animosities. They said their satellites would boost their abilities to monitor each other and enhance their own missile attack capabilities. South Korea\u2019s second spy satellite was launched from the Kennedy Space Center [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,9,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-existential-risks","category-military","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186995","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}