{"id":206485,"date":"2025-02-14T19:16:31","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T01:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/nasa-picks-spacex-to-launch-pandora-exoplanet-mission"},"modified":"2025-02-14T19:16:31","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T01:16:31","slug":"nasa-picks-spacex-to-launch-pandora-exoplanet-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/nasa-picks-spacex-to-launch-pandora-exoplanet-mission","title":{"rendered":"NASA picks SpaceX to launch Pandora exoplanet mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-picks-spacex-to-launch-pandora-exoplanet-mission.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pandora will lift off atop a <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/18962-spacex-falcon-9.html\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/18962-spacex-falcon-9.html\">Falcon 9<\/a> rocket no earlier than this fall, according to NASA officials.<\/p>\n<p>Pandora will head to low Earth orbit. Once there, the satellite will observe at least 20 known <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/32089-intelligent-alien-life-search-earth-transit-zone.html\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/32089-intelligent-alien-life-search-earth-transit-zone.html\">transiting exoplanets<\/a> \u2014 worlds that cross the face of their parent star from the telescope\u2019s perspective. It will observe these planets 10 separate times, staring at them for 24 hours on each occasion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pandora will lift off atop a Falcon 9 rocket no earlier than this fall, according to NASA officials. Pandora will head to low Earth orbit. Once there, the satellite will observe at least 20 known transiting exoplanets \u2014 worlds that cross the face of their parent star from the telescope\u2019s perspective. It will observe these [\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-206485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206485","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=206485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}