{"id":243543,"date":"2026-09-02T21:15:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T02:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/2-spacecraft-headed-to-mercury-are-about-to-begin-their-longawaited-arrival-for-europe-and-japan-live-on-sept-3"},"modified":"2026-09-02T21:15:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T02:15:11","slug":"2-spacecraft-headed-to-mercury-are-about-to-begin-their-longawaited-arrival-for-europe-and-japan-live-on-sept-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/2-spacecraft-headed-to-mercury-are-about-to-begin-their-longawaited-arrival-for-europe-and-japan-live-on-sept-3","title":{"rendered":"2 spacecraft headed to Mercury are about to begin their longawaited arrival for Europe and Japan live on Sept. 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oC7lQngNG3o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The BepiColombo mission\u2019s two science orbiters will separate from their transfer module at around 8 a.m. EDT on Thursday (Sept. 3).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BepiColombo mission\u2019s two science orbiters will separate from their transfer module at around 8 a.m. EDT on Thursday (Sept. 3).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243543","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=243543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}