{"id":84669,"date":"2018-11-11T23:42:24","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T07:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/rocket-lab-completes-first-commercial-launch-of-its-electron-rocket"},"modified":"2018-11-11T23:42:24","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T07:42:24","slug":"rocket-lab-completes-first-commercial-launch-of-its-electron-rocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/rocket-lab-completes-first-commercial-launch-of-its-electron-rocket","title":{"rendered":"Rocket Lab Completes First Commercial Launch of Its Electron Rocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/rocket-lab-completes-first-commercial-launch-of-its-electron-rocket.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>U.S.-based aerospace manufacturer Rocket Lab completed its first successful commercial launch on Saturday, sending seven spacecraft including \u201csix tiny satellites and a drag sail demonstrator\u201d into orbit aboard a relatively small Electron rocket designed primarily for smallsats and cubesats, <a href=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/2018\/11\/11\/rocket-lab-delivers-seven-payloads-to-orbit-plans-next-launch-in-december\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spaceflight Now reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/rocket-lab-completes-first-commercial-launch-of-its-ele-1830369504\">https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/rocket-lab-completes-first-commercial-la...1830369504<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S.-based aerospace manufacturer Rocket Lab completed its first successful commercial launch on Saturday, sending seven spacecraft including \u201csix tiny satellites and a drag sail demonstrator\u201d into orbit aboard a relatively small Electron rocket designed primarily for smallsats and cubesats, Spaceflight Now reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84669","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=84669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}