{"id":548030,"date":"2006-02-17T06:33:19","date_gmt":"2006-02-17T06:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/548030-satellite-blasts-off-from-sea-platform.html"},"modified":"2006-02-17T06:33:19","modified_gmt":"2006-02-17T06:33:19","slug":"satellite-blasts-off-from-sea-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/548030-satellite-blasts-off-from-sea-platform.html","title":{"rendered":"Satellite blasts off from sea platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">The Echostar X satellite, which will provide digital TV services, was successfully launched by the US-based Sea Launch company which fires commercial satellites into orbit from a floating platform, the Interfax news agency quoted Russian officials as saying. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The launch had been originally scheduled for February 9 but was delayed by a mistake in the launch sequence. <br \/>\u00a0 <br \/>Formed in 1995, Sea Launch is a joint enterprise in which US aircraft constructor Boeing owns a 40% holding, with Russia&#8217;s Energia holding 25%, Norway&#8217;s Kvaerner 20 percent with the Ukrainian outfits Yuzhnoe and Yuzhmashzavod holding the remaining 15%. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The first commercial launch from the floating platform was carried out in October 1999. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><i>INet-Bridge<\/i> <\/font><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A US telecommunications satellite blasted off from a platform in the Pacific Ocean yesterday, Russian officials said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"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-548030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548030"}],"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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}