{"id":43634,"date":"2010-08-04T17:36:06","date_gmt":"2010-08-04T21:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123215310"},"modified":"2010-08-04T17:36:06","modified_gmt":"2010-08-04T21:36:06","slug":"3-sops-executes-groundbreaking-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=43634","title":{"rendered":"3 SOPS executes groundbreaking test"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123215310\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" style=\"margin-right:15px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/shared\/media\/photodb\/thumbnails\/100727-F-3504B-002.jpg\"<\/img><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Airmen with the 3rd Space Operations Squadron, along with engineers from Lockheed Martin and The Aerospace Corporation, successfully demonstrated the capability to correct a wayward satellite using the spacecraft&#8217;s reaction wheels recently. <\/p>\n<p>The successful procedure represents an important achievement and provides wide ranging benefits to satellite systems and American taxpayers because it can potentially boost the lifespan of on-orbit satellites. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The reason this successful test is so significant is it shows we don&#8217;t necessarily need to use a satellite&#8217;s thrusters, and thus, its valuable fuel, to recover a vehicle,&#8221; said 3 SOPS Capt Karl Meyer, the test&#8217;s executer.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123215310\">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-43634","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\/43634","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=43634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43634\/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=43634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}