{"id":168441,"date":"2023-07-27T12:23:13","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T17:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/when-and-where-will-europes-aeolus-wind-satellite-fall-to-earth-this-week"},"modified":"2023-07-27T12:23:13","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T17:23:13","slug":"when-and-where-will-europes-aeolus-wind-satellite-fall-to-earth-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/when-and-where-will-europes-aeolus-wind-satellite-fall-to-earth-this-week","title":{"rendered":"When and where will Europe\u2019s Aeolus wind satellite fall to Earth this week?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/when-and-where-will-europes-aeolus-wind-satellite-fall-to-earth-this-week2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A European satellite is making a first-of-its kind return to Earth this week.<\/p>\n<p>The European Space Agency (ESA) is currently guiding its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/aeolus-satellite-will-return-to-earth-this-week\">Aeolus wind-studying satellite<\/a> down for a controlled destruction in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/17683-earth-atmosphere.html\">Earth\u2019s atmosphere<\/a>. This strategy is a major shift for Aeolus, whose original end-of-life plan called for an unguided fall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A European satellite is making a first-of-its kind return to Earth this week. The European Space Agency (ESA) is currently guiding its Aeolus wind-studying satellite down for a controlled destruction in Earth\u2019s atmosphere. This strategy is a major shift for Aeolus, whose original end-of-life plan called for an unguided fall.<\/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-168441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168441","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=168441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}