{"id":424,"date":"2010-03-20T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-20T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress65\/?p=424"},"modified":"2010-03-20T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-20T11:00:00","slug":"nato-satcom-four-decades-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/nato-satcom-four-decades-past\/","title":{"rendered":"NATO SATCOM, Four Decades Past"},"content":{"rendered":"

Forty years ago today — March 20, 1970 — the NATO-1<\/a> communications satellite was launched from Cape Canaveral on a Delta launch vehicle. Placed in geosynchronous orbit over the Atlantic Ocean, the satellite provided secure, reliable communications support to North Atlantic Treaty Organization leaders.<\/p>\n

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