{"id":602,"date":"2011-05-08T21:02:43","date_gmt":"2011-05-08T21:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress65\/?p=602"},"modified":"2011-05-08T21:02:43","modified_gmt":"2011-05-08T21:02:43","slug":"satellite-radio-adds-roll-its-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/satellite-radio-adds-roll-its-rock\/","title":{"rendered":"Satellite Radio Adds Roll to its Rock"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ten years ago today — May 8, 2001 — the Sea Launch team launched the XM-1 or “Roll” satellite from the Odyssey launch platform.<\/p>\n

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\n(XM-1 “Roll” launch from the Sea Launch platform. Image from www.sea-launch.com<\/a>.)<\/em><\/p>\n

\nIn our “Satellite Radio in Space History” item<\/a>, we noted the launch of XM-2, or “Rock” — so with this launch XM Radio officially had its Rock<\/a> and Roll<\/a>.<\/p>\n

My time on the Pacific with Sea Launch<\/a> came in the summer of 2002, and it’s still one of the coolest temporary duty assignments I ever had.<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"pinterest\"<\/a>\"linkedin\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>by <\/span>\"feather\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ten years ago today — May 8, 2001 — the Sea Launch team launched the XM-1 or “Roll” satellite from the Odyssey launch platform. (XM-1 “Roll” launch from the Sea Launch platform. Image from www.sea-launch.com.) In our “Satellite Radio in Space History” item, we noted the launch of XM-2, or \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":[8],"tags":[26,52,11],"class_list":["post-602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space","tag-launch","tag-sea-launch","tag-space-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602","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=602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}