{"id":308,"date":"2005-06-22T17:53:59","date_gmt":"2005-06-22T16:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=308"},"modified":"2005-06-22T17:55:17","modified_gmt":"2005-06-22T16:55:17","slug":"we-are-probably-in-orbit-but-its-not-the-orbit-that-we-thought-it-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/2005\/06\/we-are-probably-in-orbit-but-its-not-the-orbit-that-we-thought-it-was","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;We are probably in orbit, but it&#8217;s not the orbit that we thought it was&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first amateur launched orbital space craft, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetary.org\/solarsail\/\">Cosmos-1<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=10000103&#038;sid=aSes3y2efWiE&#038;refer=us\">appears to be lost<\/a>. The Cosmos-1 is\/was a solar sail powered craft, the first of its kind to enter space, and built by The Planetary Society. Launching space-craft has been a government monopoly more or less until last year, when private space faring took off with the launch of Scaled Composite&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/2004\/10\/spaceshipone-wins-the-ansari-x-prize\">SpaceShipOne<\/a>. Cosmos-1 was launched using a Russian ICBM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first amateur launched orbital space craft, the Cosmos-1, appears to be lost. The Cosmos-1 is\/was a solar sail powered craft, the first of its kind to enter space, and built by The Planetary Society. Launching space-craft has been a government monopoly more or less until last year, when private space faring took off with &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/2005\/06\/we-are-probably-in-orbit-but-its-not-the-orbit-that-we-thought-it-was\" class=\"excerpt-read-more read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tekstadventure.nl\/branko\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}