{"id":579,"date":"2011-03-18T15:02:13","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T15:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress65\/?p=579"},"modified":"2011-03-18T15:02:13","modified_gmt":"2011-03-18T15:02:13","slug":"satellite-radio-space-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/satellite-radio-space-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Satellite Radio in Space History"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ten years ago today — March 18, 2001 — XM-Radio launched its first satellite.<\/p>\n

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\n(XM-2 launch. Sea Launch photo. Click to enlarge.)<\/em><\/p>\n

\nKnown as XM-2, or XM “Rock”<\/a>, the spacecraft was launched by Sea Launch<\/a> from the converted oil well platform “Odyssey.” A few weeks later, in May of 2001, another Sea Launch Zenit-3SL rocket launched XM-1, nicknamed XM “Roll”<\/a>. Today, the XM portion of SiriusXM Radio<\/a> uses similar spacecraft known as “Rhythm” and “Blues.”<\/p>\n

A few years after this launch, I got to go out on a Sea Launch mission as one of the space technology security monitors for the Defense Technology Security Adminsitration. As I’ve said before<\/a>, it was one of the most interesting temporary duty assignments of my Air Force career.<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"pinterest\"<\/a>\"linkedin\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>by <\/span>\"feather\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ten years ago today — March 18, 2001 — XM-Radio launched its first satellite. (XM-2 launch. Sea Launch photo. Click to enlarge.) Known as XM-2, or XM “Rock”, the spacecraft was launched by Sea Launch from the converted oil well platform “Odyssey.” A few weeks later, in May of 2001, \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[26,52,11],"class_list":["post-579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","tag-launch","tag-sea-launch","tag-space-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}