{"id":180162,"date":"2024-01-09T20:27:30","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T02:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/fuel-leak-forces-us-company-to-abandon-moon-landing-attempt"},"modified":"2024-01-09T20:27:30","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T02:27:30","slug":"fuel-leak-forces-us-company-to-abandon-moon-landing-attempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/fuel-leak-forces-us-company-to-abandon-moon-landing-attempt","title":{"rendered":"Fuel leak forces US company to abandon moon landing attempt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fuel-leak-forces-us-company-to-abandon-moon-landing-attempt2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A crippling fuel leak forced a U.S. company on Tuesday to give up on landing a spacecraft on the moon.<\/p>\n<p>Astrobotic Technology\u2019s lander began losing fuel soon after <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2024-01-moon-company-doomed-critical-fuel.html\">Monday\u2019s launch<\/a>. The spacecraft also encountered problems keeping its solar panel pointed towards the sun and generating <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/solar+power\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">solar power<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiven the propellant leak, there is, unfortunately, no chance of a soft landing on the moon,\u201d Astrobotic said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A crippling fuel leak forced a U.S. company on Tuesday to give up on landing a spacecraft on the moon. Astrobotic Technology\u2019s lander began losing fuel soon after Monday\u2019s launch. The spacecraft also encountered problems keeping its solar panel pointed towards the sun and generating solar power. \u201cGiven the propellant leak, there is, unfortunately, no [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1633,1514,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-solar-power","category-space-travel","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180162","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}