{"id":85006,"date":"2018-11-22T06:22:55","date_gmt":"2018-11-22T14:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/big-test-coming-up-for-tiny-satellites-trailing-mars-lander"},"modified":"2018-11-22T06:22:55","modified_gmt":"2018-11-22T14:22:55","slug":"big-test-coming-up-for-tiny-satellites-trailing-mars-lander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/big-test-coming-up-for-tiny-satellites-trailing-mars-lander","title":{"rendered":"Big test coming up for tiny satellites trailing Mars lander"},"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\/2LlZlOceF7o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) \u2014 A pair of tiny experimental satellites trailing NASA\u2019s InSight spacecraft all the way to Mars face their biggest test yet. Their mission: Broadcast immediate news, good or bad, of InSight\u2019s plunge through the Martian atmosphere on Monday. Named WALL-E and EVE after the main characters in the 2008 animated movie, the twin CubeSats will pass within a few thousand miles (kilometers) of Mars as the lander attempts its dicey touchdown. If these pipsqueaks manage to relay InSight\u2019s radio signals to ground controllers nearly 100 million miles (160 million kilometers) away, we\u2019ll know within minutes whether the spacecraft landed safely.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/c121ff6fb2ba45dda7e11cdec2c306d3\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/c121ff6fb2ba45dda7e11cdec2c306d3<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) \u2014 A pair of tiny experimental satellites trailing NASA\u2019s InSight spacecraft all the way to Mars face their biggest test yet. Their mission: Broadcast immediate news, good or bad, of InSight\u2019s plunge through the Martian atmosphere on Monday. Named WALL-E and EVE after the main characters in the 2008 animated movie, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85006","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=85006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}