{"id":60283,"date":"2023-12-02T12:37:06","date_gmt":"2023-12-02T03:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/02\/south-korea-launches-first-military-spy-satellite-intensifying-space-race-with-pyongyang"},"modified":"2023-12-02T12:37:06","modified_gmt":"2023-12-02T03:37:06","slug":"south-korea-launches-first-military-spy-satellite-intensifying-space-race-with-pyongyang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=60283","title":{"rendered":"South Korea launches first military spy satellite, intensifying space race with Pyongyang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seoul\u2019s satellite was launched into orbit on one of Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX rockets<\/p>\n<p>A SpaceX rocket has launched South Korea\u2019s first military spy satellite, intensifying a space race on the peninsula after Pyongyang launched its own first surveillance satellite last week.<\/p>\n<p>Seoul\u2019s reconnaissance satellite, carried by one of Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets, lifted off from the Vandenberg US Space Force Base in California at 10.19am local time on Friday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/02\/south-korea-launches-first-military-spy-satellite-intensifying-space-race-with-pyongyang\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seoul\u2019s satellite was launched into orbit on one of Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX rocketsA SpaceX rocket has launched South Korea\u2019s first military spy satellite, intensifying a space race on the peninsula after Pyongyang launched its own first surveillance satell&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,40,2323,222,297,1442],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-north-korea","category-satellites","category-south-korea","category-space","category-spacex"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60284,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60283\/revisions\/60284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}