{"id":46544,"date":"2026-07-23T02:18:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T06:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=46544"},"modified":"2026-07-23T02:18:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T06:18:20","slug":"next-space-force-chief-throws-cold-water-on-the-idea-of-space-privateers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=46544","title":{"rendered":"Next Space Force chief throws cold water on the idea of space privateers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/space\/2026\/07\/next-space-force-chief-throws-cold-water-on-the-idea-of-space-privateers\/?ICID=ref_fark\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/national-security-space-render-space-air-land-sea.jpg.pc-adaptive.1280.medium.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:196px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>It turns out some of Benjamin Franklin&#8217;s opinions from 240 years ago are still relevant today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/space\/2026\/07\/next-space-force-chief-throws-cold-water-on-the-idea-of-space-privateers\/\">Next Space Force chief throws cold water on the idea of space privateers<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out some of Benjamin Franklin&#8217;s opinions from 240 years ago&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[782,74,2275,57],"class_list":["post-46544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-pirates","tag-space","tag-space-force","tag-usa","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46544"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46547,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46544\/revisions\/46547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}