{"id":112056,"date":"2020-08-28T20:52:14","date_gmt":"2020-08-29T03:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/56-year-old-nasa-satellite-expected-to-fall-to-earth-this-weekend"},"modified":"2020-08-28T20:52:14","modified_gmt":"2020-08-29T03:52:14","slug":"56-year-old-nasa-satellite-expected-to-fall-to-earth-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/56-year-old-nasa-satellite-expected-to-fall-to-earth-this-weekend","title":{"rendered":"56-year-old NASA satellite expected to fall to Earth this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/56-year-old-nasa-satellite-expected-to-fall-to-earth-this-weekend2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A NASA geophysics satellite\u2019s long space odyssey is nearly at an end.<\/p>\n<p>The Orbiting Geophysics Observatory 1 spacecraft, or OGO-1, launched in September 1964 to study Earth\u2019s magnetic environment and how our planet interacts with the sun. The satellite gathered data until 1969, was officially decommissioned in 1971 and has been zooming silently around Earth on a highly elliptical two-day orbit ever since.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A NASA geophysics satellite\u2019s long space odyssey is nearly at an end. The Orbiting Geophysics Observatory 1 spacecraft, or OGO-1, launched in September 1964 to study Earth\u2019s magnetic environment and how our planet interacts with the sun. The satellite gathered data until 1969, was officially decommissioned in 1971 and has been zooming silently around Earth [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112056","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}