{"id":85513,"date":"2018-12-05T11:42:28","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T19:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/bepicolombo-now-firing-on-all-cylinders"},"modified":"2018-12-05T11:42:28","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T19:42:28","slug":"bepicolombo-now-firing-on-all-cylinders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/bepicolombo-now-firing-on-all-cylinders","title":{"rendered":"BepiColombo now firing on all cylinders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bepicolombo-now-firing-on-all-cylinders2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>#BepiColombo\u2019s thrusters have fired in space for the FIRST TIME. The electric ion propulsion \u2018jetpacks\u2019 are now ready for routine firing from mid-December onwards, steering BepiColombo on its interplanetary trajectory ahead of its swingby of Earth in April 2020. See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Operations\/BepiColombo_now_firing_on_all_cylinders&h=AT3wWajl5_lNkwB43iCE9mYdDA22bTD1RxvKy4Snplc-PpV5psPxYkyVJ0hRKx2WUB4jUKV55OyWOXcF_zldsXeP37GgK3tCVM07yci3pTH5Ldq-XkHhWM77EN6iIQCxIuUSxO4hz8cs_Owk_B5KuZEaF_OG_xaFc_sBXX-GUsvoLMEBTF7xEw\">https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Operations\/BepiColombo_no\u2026LMEBTF7xEw<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Operations\/BepiColombo_now_firing_on_all_cylinders\">https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Operations\/BepiColombo_no..._cylinders<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#BepiColombo\u2019s thrusters have fired in space for the FIRST TIME. The electric ion propulsion \u2018jetpacks\u2019 are now ready for routine firing from mid-December onwards, steering BepiColombo on its interplanetary trajectory ahead of its swingby of Earth in April 2020. See https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Operations\/BepiColombo_no\u2026LMEBTF7xEw<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85513","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\/466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}