{"id":43279,"date":"2014-03-27T21:06:21","date_gmt":"2014-03-27T21:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/wired_how_vintage_tech_helped_us_track_the_missing_malaysia_airlines_jet\/"},"modified":"2014-03-27T21:06:21","modified_gmt":"2014-03-27T21:06:21","slug":"wired_how_vintage_tech_helped_us_track_the_missing_malaysia_airlines_jet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=43279","title":{"rendered":"(Wired) How Vintage Tech Helped Us Track the Missing Malaysia Airlines Jet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The saga of MH370, the Malaysian Airlines flight missing for more than two weeks, seems to be entering its final chapter. Earlier this week, engineers developed a method to estimate the plane\u2019s trajectory, and debris appear to have been spotted in satellite images.<\/p>\n<p>While the technique used to track the flight path has been called \u201cgroundbreaking,\u201d\u009d it actually rests on some fairly old-fashioned physics. In fact, the basic method has been used to conduct satellite search and rescue operations for more than 30 years, predating our always-connected, GPS-enabled world.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2014\/03\/mh370-doppler-rescue\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The saga of MH370, the Malaysian Airlines flight missing for more than two weeks, seems to be entering its final chapter. Earlier this week, engineers developed a method to estimate the plane\u2019s trajectory, and debris appear to have been spotted<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=43279\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,201,482,95,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-asia","category-malaysia","category-science-technology","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}