{"id":167660,"date":"2023-07-16T14:23:18","date_gmt":"2023-07-16T19:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/a-world-first-spacecraft-reentry-to-earth-is-approaching"},"modified":"2023-07-16T14:23:18","modified_gmt":"2023-07-16T19:23:18","slug":"a-world-first-spacecraft-reentry-to-earth-is-approaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/a-world-first-spacecraft-reentry-to-earth-is-approaching","title":{"rendered":"A world-first spacecraft reentry to Earth is approaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-world-first-spacecraft-reentry-to-earth-is-approaching2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To avert the extremely remote risk that debris poses to life, ESA is targeting the reentry at a vast expanse of ocean far away from land.<\/p>\n<p>If the manoeuvres are successful, ESA expects to complete the journey in late July or early August. However, as a first-ever attempt at an assisted reentry, it\u2019s not guaranteed to work. If the plan has to be aborted, Aeolus\u2019 natural descent will continue.<\/p>\n<p>But if the mission is accomplished, it will set a new standard for satellite reentry and space junk mitigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To avert the extremely remote risk that debris poses to life, ESA is targeting the reentry at a vast expanse of ocean far away from land. If the manoeuvres are successful, ESA expects to complete the journey in late July or early August. However, as a first-ever attempt at an assisted reentry, it\u2019s not guaranteed [\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-167660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167660","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=167660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}