{"id":54649,"date":"2010-09-26T02:46:52","date_gmt":"2010-09-26T06:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123223753"},"modified":"2010-09-26T02:46:52","modified_gmt":"2010-09-26T06:46:52","slug":"vandenberg-launches-minotaur-iv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=54649","title":{"rendered":"Vandenberg launches Minotaur IV"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123223753\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" style=\"margin-right:15px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/shared\/media\/photodb\/thumbnails\/100925-F-5688L-001.jpg\"<\/img><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Team Vandenberg launched a Minotaur IV rocket at 9:41 p.m. Sept. 25 from Space Launch Complex-8 here. <\/p>\n<p>The Minotaur IV launched the Space-Based Space Surveillance satellite, a first-of-its-kind satellite that can detect and track orbiting space objects from space. <\/p>\n<p>The 30th Space Wing commander, Col. Richard Boltz, was the launch decision authority.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;SBSS will greatly enhance our existing space situational awareness capability, a capability vital to protecting our space-based assets,&#8221; said Colonel Boltz. &#8220;This evening&#8217;s launch was our third launch in eight days, and I am extremely proud of Team Vandenberg for all the hard work and dedication they&#8217;ve put into these important missions.&#8221;<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123223753\">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-54649","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\/54649","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=54649"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54705,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54649\/revisions\/54705"}],"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=54649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}