{"id":17467,"date":"2010-12-25T17:22:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-25T15:22:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-12-25T17:22:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-25T15:22:00","slug":"rocket-explode-just-after-liftoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/17467-rocket-explode-just-after-liftoff.html","title":{"rendered":"Rocket explode just after liftoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"BodyP\">Television images showed the rocket exploding in the  first stage after it launched from the Sriharikota space center. It was  carrying a GSAT-5P satellite into orbit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\">The Indian Space Research Organization had no immediate comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\">In April, a rocket on a developmental flight plunged into the Bay of Bengal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\">Yashpal, a retired Indian scientist and independent  commentator, said other countries too have experienced such failures. &#8220;I  hope it&#8217;s just one of those things,&#8221; Yashpal, who uses one name, told  reporters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\">India is planning its first manned space flight in 2016.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\">An Indian satellite launched in 2008 to orbit the moon  was abandoned last year after communication links snapped and scientists  lost control of the satellite.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rocket carrying an Indian communication satellite exploded just after liftoff Saturday in the second launch failure for India&#039;s space agency this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17467"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}