{"id":138365,"date":"2022-04-20T13:04:45","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T18:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/voyager-the-first-launch-of-a-radioisotope-power-system-rps-by-the-united-states-60-years-ago-in-june-1961-led-to-decades-of-historic-rps-powered-missions-by-nasa"},"modified":"2022-04-20T13:04:45","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T18:04:45","slug":"voyager-the-first-launch-of-a-radioisotope-power-system-rps-by-the-united-states-60-years-ago-in-june-1961-led-to-decades-of-historic-rps-powered-missions-by-nasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/voyager-the-first-launch-of-a-radioisotope-power-system-rps-by-the-united-states-60-years-ago-in-june-1961-led-to-decades-of-historic-rps-powered-missions-by-nasa","title":{"rendered":"Voyager: The first launch of a radioisotope power system (RPS) by the United States 60 years ago in June 1961 led to decades of historic RPS-powered missions by NASA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/voyager2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the sparse collection of atoms that fills interstellar space, Voyager 1 has measured a long-lasting series of waves where it previously only detected sporadic bursts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the sparse collection of atoms that fills interstellar space, Voyager 1 has measured a long-lasting series of waves where it previously only detected sporadic bursts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138365","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\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}