{"id":109169,"date":"2020-06-26T15:42:29","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T22:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/launch-of-nasas-next-mars-rover-delayed-again-by-contamination-concern-on-the-ground"},"modified":"2020-06-26T15:42:29","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T22:42:29","slug":"launch-of-nasas-next-mars-rover-delayed-again-by-contamination-concern-on-the-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/launch-of-nasas-next-mars-rover-delayed-again-by-contamination-concern-on-the-ground","title":{"rendered":"Launch of NASA\u2019s next Mars rover delayed again by \u2018contamination concern\u2019 on the ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/launch-of-nasas-next-mars-rover-delayed-again-by-contamination-concern-on-the-ground2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The launch of NASA\u2019s next Mars rover has been delayed to no earlier than July 22 due to a contamination issue with ground support equipment, the space agency said today (June 24).<\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/perseverance-mars-2020-rover.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mars rover Perseverance<\/a> was scheduled to launch toward the Red Planet on July 20 from a pad at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. But a problem cropped up as engineers worked to encapsulate the rover in the nosecone of its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/40250-atlas-v-rocket.html\">Atlas V rocket<\/a>, which was built by United Launch Alliance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The launch of NASA\u2019s next Mars rover has been delayed to no earlier than July 22 due to a contamination issue with ground support equipment, the space agency said today (June 24). NASA\u2019s Mars rover Perseverance was scheduled to launch toward the Red Planet on July 20 from a pad at the Cape Canaveral Air [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}