{"id":84472,"date":"2018-11-04T18:03:11","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T02:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/soyuz-2-1b-launches-new-glonass-m-navigation-satellite"},"modified":"2018-11-04T18:03:11","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T02:03:11","slug":"soyuz-2-1b-launches-new-glonass-m-navigation-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/soyuz-2-1b-launches-new-glonass-m-navigation-satellite","title":{"rendered":"Soyuz 2.1b launches new GLONASS-M navigation satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/soyuz-2-1b-launches-new-glonass-m-navigation-satellite.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Russia has continued the expansion of its GLONASS constellation with the Saturday, Nov. 3, 2018 launch of a Soyuz 2.1b rocket from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome located in northern Russia.<\/p>\n<p>The GLONASS-M (GLONASS-M No. 757) spacecraft that was sent aloft will now become part of Russia\u2019s Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS). The rocket and its payload took to the late evening\u2019s skies at 11:17 p.m. Moscow time (20:17 GMT \/ 3:17 p.m. EST) from Plesetsk\u2019s Pad 4 at Site 43.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceflightinsider.com\/organizations\/roscosmos\/russia-launched-a-glonass-navigation-satellite-and-returned-the-countrys-soyuz-rocket-to-service\/\">http:\/\/www.spaceflightinsider.com\/organizations\/roscosmos\/ru...o-service\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia has continued the expansion of its GLONASS constellation with the Saturday, Nov. 3, 2018 launch of a Soyuz 2.1b rocket from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome located in northern Russia. The GLONASS-M (GLONASS-M No. 757) spacecraft that was sent aloft will now become part of Russia\u2019s Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS). The rocket and its payload [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84472","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=84472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}