{"id":193983,"date":"2008-11-03T00:05:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-03T05:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/03\/dassault-looks-at-rafale-as-satellite-launcher\/"},"modified":"2008-11-03T00:05:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-03T05:05:00","slug":"dassault-looks-at-rafale-as-satellite-launcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/03\/dassault-looks-at-rafale-as-satellite-launcher\/","title":{"rendered":"Dassault Looks at Rafale  as Satellite Launcher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img221.imageshack.us\/img221\/5774\/646749703c124c41b1ecc90hh4.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" \/>This is actually <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/aw\/blogs\/defense\/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&amp;plckScript=blogScript&amp;plckElementId=blogDest&amp;plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&amp;plckPostId=Blog%3A27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3A90058091-e52e-436b-b631-d423032078a9\">fairly well trodden ground<\/a>, with an F-15 launching an anti-satellite weapon in the 1980s, and concepts using a MiG-31 to launch microsats in the past few years.<\/p>\n<p>What looks like fuel tanks under the wings are actually solid rocket boosters, which is a bit of a change from earlier configurations.<\/p>\n<p>While the F-15 did successfully intercept a satellite (that was still putting out good scientific data&#8230;oops), nothing has come of this otherwise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is actually fairly well trodden ground, with an F-15 launching an anti-satellite weapon in the 1980s, and concepts using a MiG-31 to launch microsats in the past few years. What looks like fuel tanks under the wings are actually solid rocket boosters, which is a bit of a change from earlier configurations. While the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1037,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-space","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193983"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}