{"id":194798,"date":"2008-08-18T05:24:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-18T10:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/18\/iran-claims-launch-of-satellite-capable-launcher\/"},"modified":"2008-08-18T05:24:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-18T10:24:00","slug":"iran-claims-launch-of-satellite-capable-launcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/18\/iran-claims-launch-of-satellite-capable-launcher\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Claims Launch of Satellite Capable Launcher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Certainly the ability <a href=\"http:\/\/iht.com\/articles\/2008\/08\/18\/africa\/18iran.php\">to launch their own satellites<\/a> is a capability that most nations desire, though I would note that a rocket that can put 100 lbs in low earth orbit could most likely put a 1000 lb warhead on a sub-orbital flight to almost anywhere on earth, based on my limited sens of orbital mechanics.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/WORLD\/meast\/08\/18\/us.iran.rocket\/index.html\">Pentagon is saying that they doubt that the launch was successful<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Certainly the ability to launch their own satellites is a capability that most nations desire, though I would note that a rocket that can put 100 lbs in low earth orbit could most likely put a 1000 lb warhead on a sub-orbital flight to almost anywhere on earth, based on my limited sens of orbital &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1034,1037,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iran","category-space","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194798"}],"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=194798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}