{"id":220719,"date":"2014-08-05T05:23:04","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T09:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123420178"},"modified":"2014-08-05T05:23:04","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T09:23:04","slug":"45th-space-wing-supports-spacex-launch-of-asiasat-8-satellite-from-cape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=220719","title":{"rendered":"45th Space Wing supports SpaceX launch of AsiaSat 8 satellite from Cape"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123420178\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" style=\"margin-right:15px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/shared\/media\/photodb\/thumbnails\/2014\/08\/140805-F-XX999-003.jpg\"<\/img><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The 45th Space Wing supported Space Exploration Technologies&#8217; (SpaceX) successful launch of their Falcon 9 rocket carrying the AsiaSat 8 satellite from Space Launch Complex 40 at 4 a.m. Aug. 5. <\/p>\n<p>AsiaSat 8 is a Fixed Satellite Services satellite built for Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited (AsiaSat), serving Asia, the Middle East, and Australia. Fixed Satellite Services satellites provide broadcast and\/or communications in a geosynchronous orbit.<\/p>\n<p>The satellite is designed on the SS\/L 1300 satellite platform, which provides the flexibility for a broad range of applications and technology advances. <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123420178\">more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220719","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\/220719","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\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=220719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220733,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220719\/revisions\/220733"}],"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=220719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=220719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=220719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}