{"id":77346,"date":"2018-04-02T15:23:44","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T22:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/storm-hunter-launched-to-international-space-station"},"modified":"2018-04-04T09:07:30","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T16:07:30","slug":"storm-hunter-launched-to-international-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/storm-hunter-launched-to-international-space-station","title":{"rendered":"Storm hunter launched to International Space Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/storm-hunter-launched-to-international-space-station.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>ESA\u2019s observatory to monitor electrical discharges in the upper atmosphere is on its way to the International Space Station. The Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor is riding in the Dragon cargo vehicle that lifted off at 20:30 GMT (16:40 local time) from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA.<\/p>\n<p>A suite of instruments will search for high-altitude electrical discharges associated with stormy weather conditions. It is the first time that such a set of sensitive cameras, light sensors and X- and gamma-ray detectors are flying together to study the inner anatomy of luminous phenomena in Earth\u2019s upper atmosphere and the link with bursts of high-energy radiation.<\/p>\n<p>ASIM mounted on Columbus.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Human_Spaceflight\/Storm_hunter_launched_to_International_Space_Station\">http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Human_Spaceflight\/Storm_hu...ce_Station<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESA\u2019s observatory to monitor electrical discharges in the upper atmosphere is on its way to the International Space Station. The Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor is riding in the Dragon cargo vehicle that lifted off at 20:30 GMT (16:40 local time) from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA. A suite of instruments will search for high-altitude electrical [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77346","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=77346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77397,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77346\/revisions\/77397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}