{"id":180124,"date":"2024-01-09T11:24:59","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T17:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/photo-shows-damaged-moon-lander-languishing-in-orbit"},"modified":"2024-01-09T11:24:59","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T17:24:59","slug":"photo-shows-damaged-moon-lander-languishing-in-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/photo-shows-damaged-moon-lander-languishing-in-orbit","title":{"rendered":"Photo Shows Damaged Moon Lander Languishing in Orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/photo-shows-damaged-moon-lander-languishing-in-orbit2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As a result, the company is now racing to make the most of the situation, though a full Moon landing is now sounding more or less impossible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are currently assessing what alternative mission profiles may be feasible at this time,\u201d the company wrote.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a sad state of affairs. In the most <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/astrobotic\/status\/1744467156366991843?s=20\" class=\"\">recent update<\/a>, the company shared the first photo the lander snapped in space, showing a creased layer of insulation, which may have contributed to the spacecraft\u2019s ongoing issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a result, the company is now racing to make the most of the situation, though a full Moon landing is now sounding more or less impossible. \u201cWe are currently assessing what alternative mission profiles may be feasible at this time,\u201d the company wrote. It\u2019s a sad state of affairs. In the most recent update, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180124","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}