{"id":14381,"date":"2024-12-23T12:18:07","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T06:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=14381"},"modified":"2024-12-23T12:18:07","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T06:33:07","slug":"south-korea-successfully-launches-3rd-spy-satellite-into-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/south-korea-successfully-launches-3rd-spy-satellite-into-orbit\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea successfully launches 3rd spy satellite into orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>South Korea successfully placed into orbit its third homegrown spy satellite launched from a US space centre Saturday, the defence ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>Yonhap News Agency reported that a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the satellite normally lifted off at 8:34 p.m. (Korean time) from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California as planned and sent the reconnaissance satellite into orbit at 9:24 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The launched satellite succeeded in communicating with an overseas ground station at 11:30 p.m., it added, in a step indicating the satellite&#8217;s normal operation.<\/p>\n<p>It is the third military satellite launched under South Korea&#8217;s plan to acquire five spy satellites by 2025. South Korea has previously relied largely on satellite imagery provided by the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea successfully placed into orbit its third homegrown spy satellite launched from a US space centre Saturday, the defence ministry said. Yonhap News Agency reported that a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the satellite normally lifted off at 8:34 p.m. (Korean time) from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California as planned and sent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14381"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14383,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14381\/revisions\/14383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}