{"id":61207,"date":"2010-11-06T14:34:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-06T18:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123229802"},"modified":"2010-11-06T14:34:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-06T18:34:00","slug":"vandenberg-successfully-launches-delta-ii-cosmo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=61207","title":{"rendered":"Vandenberg successfully launches Delta II Cosmo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vandenberg launched a Delta II rocket carrying the Thales Alenia Space-Italia COSMO-SkyMed Satellite, Friday, Nov. 5, at 7:20 p.m. from Space Launch Complex-2 on North Vandenberg. <\/p>\n<p>This launch is the fourth and final for COSMO-SkyMed. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This was a critical launch for completing the COSMO-SkyMed constellation and Team Vandenberg performed brilliantly,&#8221; said Col. Richard Boltz, 30th Space Wing commander. <\/p>\n<p>The overall objective of the COSMO-SkyMed program is global Earth observation, particularly in the Mediterranean area. Some applications include territorial surveillance; analyzing effects of natural disasters; coastal surveillance to assess erosion and sea\/river pollution, monitoring<br \/>\nof farming, forestry resources and urban buildings; mapping with a resolution on the order of one meter; and territorial security and strategic defense.<\/p>\n<p>The three other COSMO-SkyMed satellites were launched from Vandenberg in June 2007, December 2007 and October 2008.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123229802\">more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vandenberg launched a Delta II rocket carrying the Thales Alenia Space-Italia COSMO-SkyMed Satellite, Friday, Nov. 5, at 7:20 p.m. from Space Launch Complex-2 on North Vandenberg. <\/p>\n<p>This launch is the fourth and final for COSMO-SkyMed. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This was &#8230;<\/p>\n","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-61207","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\/61207","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=61207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61207\/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=61207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}