{"id":94444,"date":"2019-08-05T02:02:25","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T09:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/france-is-making-space-based-anti-satellite-laser-weapons"},"modified":"2019-08-05T02:02:25","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T09:02:25","slug":"france-is-making-space-based-anti-satellite-laser-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/france-is-making-space-based-anti-satellite-laser-weapons","title":{"rendered":"France Is Making Space-Based Anti-Satellite Laser Weapons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/france-is-making-space-based-anti-satellite-laser-weapons.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>France will develop satellites armed with laser weapons, and will use the weapons against enemy satellites that threaten the country\u2019s space forces. The announcement is just part of a gradual shift in acceptance of space-based weaponry as countries reliant on space for military operations in the air, on land, and at sea\u2014as well as for economic purposes, bow to reality and accept space as a future battleground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France will develop satellites armed with laser weapons, and will use the weapons against enemy satellites that threaten the country\u2019s space forces. The announcement is just part of a gradual shift in acceptance of space-based weaponry as countries reliant on space for military operations in the air, on land, and at sea\u2014as well as for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,9,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-military","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94444","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\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}