{"id":147801,"date":"2012-08-27T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123315599"},"modified":"2012-08-27T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-27T16:00:00","slug":"afspc-milestone-us-shoots-down-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=147801","title":{"rendered":"AFSPC Milestone: US shoots down satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123315599\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" style=\"margin-right:15px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/shared\/media\/photodb\/thumbnails\/2012\/08\/080220-F-NQ666-036.jpg\"<\/img><\/a><\/div>\n<p>On 20 February 2008, the U.S. uses an SM-3 missile to shoot down a non-functioning satellite. The main reason the U.S. acted was to ensure that the frozen hydrazine onboard the wayward satellite was destroyed before it could hit the Earth.<\/p>\n<p>Without intervention, the satellite would have fallen to Earth on its own in early March 2008. The fuel tank, full of 1,000 pounds of hydrazine, could have survived re-entry and dispersed harmful or even potentially deadly fumes over an area the size of two football fields.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123315599\">more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-force-space-command"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}