{"id":4342,"date":"2018-10-17T22:37:26","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T22:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=4342"},"modified":"2018-10-17T22:37:26","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T22:37:26","slug":"chinas-lunar-satellite-could-stab-u-s-early-warning-satellites-in-the-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/10\/17\/chinas-lunar-satellite-could-stab-u-s-early-warning-satellites-in-the-back\/","title":{"rendered":"CHINA\u2019S LUNAR SATELLITE COULD STAB U.S EARLY WARNING SATELLITES IN THE BACK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/08\/satellite.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3954\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/08\/satellite.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"690\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/08\/satellite.jpg 690w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/08\/satellite-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/08\/satellite-560x315.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/08\/satellite-260x146.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/08\/satellite-160x90.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: The Drive<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedrive.com\/author\/tyler-rogoway\">By Tyler Rogoway<\/a><\/p>\n<p>China continues to push forward with its ambitious lunar base program, one that supposedly aims for a manned lunar landing by around 2030.<\/p>\n<p>But there are emerging concerns that the satellites being sent to support this initiative could also have a far darker purpose\u2014attacking the Pentagon&#8217;s most critical space-based assets that live in geosynchronous orbit, beginning roughly 22,000 miles above the Earth&#8217;s surface.<\/p>\n<p>These include strategic surveillance platforms, like America&#8217;s space-based infrared early warning satellite network that detects and tracks ballistic missile launches during their early boost stages and possibly beyond.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: http:\/\/www.thedrive.com\/the-war-zone\/24287\/chinas-lunar-satellites-could-stab-u-s-early-warning-satellites-in-the-back<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The Drive By Tyler Rogoway China continues to push forward with its ambitious lunar base program, one that supposedly aims for a manned lunar landing by around 2030. But there are emerging concerns that the satellites being sent to support this initiative could also have a far darker purpose\u2014attacking the Pentagon&#8217;s most critical space-based&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/10\/17\/chinas-lunar-satellite-could-stab-u-s-early-warning-satellites-in-the-back\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CHINA\u2019S LUNAR SATELLITE COULD STAB U.S EARLY WARNING SATELLITES IN THE BACK<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-industry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4343,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4342\/revisions\/4343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}