{"id":179271,"date":"2023-12-27T10:26:21","date_gmt":"2023-12-27T16:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/6-exciting-space-missions-set-to-launch-in-2024"},"modified":"2023-12-27T10:26:21","modified_gmt":"2023-12-27T16:26:21","slug":"6-exciting-space-missions-set-to-launch-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/6-exciting-space-missions-set-to-launch-in-2024","title":{"rendered":"6 Exciting Space Missions Set to Launch in 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/6-exciting-space-missions-set-to-launch-in-20242.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA has recently invested in a class of small, low-cost planetary missions called <a href=\"https:\/\/soma.larc.nasa.gov\/simplex\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">SIMPLEx<\/a>, which stands for Small, Innovative Missions for PLanetary Exploration. These missions save costs by tagging along on other launches as what is called a rideshare, or secondary payload.<\/p>\n<p>One example is the Lunar Trailblazer. Like VIPER, Lunar Trailblazer will look for water on the moon.<\/p>\n<p>But while VIPER will land on the Moon\u2019s surface, studying a specific area near the south pole in detail, Lunar Trailblazer will orbit the moon, measuring the temperature of the surface and <a href=\"https:\/\/trailblazer.caltech.edu\/objectives.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">mapping out the locations of water molecules<\/a> across the globe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA has recently invested in a class of small, low-cost planetary missions called SIMPLEx, which stands for Small, Innovative Missions for PLanetary Exploration. These missions save costs by tagging along on other launches as what is called a rideshare, or secondary payload. One example is the Lunar Trailblazer. Like VIPER, Lunar Trailblazer will look for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1965,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179271","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=179271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}