{"id":89151,"date":"2019-04-02T10:02:42","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T17:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/israeli-moon-lander-tweaks-orbit-to-prep-for-thursday-lunar-arrival"},"modified":"2019-04-02T10:02:42","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T17:02:42","slug":"israeli-moon-lander-tweaks-orbit-to-prep-for-thursday-lunar-arrival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/israeli-moon-lander-tweaks-orbit-to-prep-for-thursday-lunar-arrival","title":{"rendered":"Israeli Moon Lander Tweaks Orbit to Prep for Thursday Lunar Arrival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/israeli-moon-lander-tweaks-orbit-to-prep-for-thursday-lunar-arrival3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 5-foot-tall (1.5 meters) Beresheet fired its engines for a little over a minute early this morning (April 1), altering its trajectory slightly to prepare for a planned capture into lunar orbit on Thursday (April 4).<\/p>\n<p>If all goes according to plan, the robotic lander will touch down on the moon one week later, on April 11. That will be a huge milestone. To date, the only organizations to pull off a soft lunar landing are superpower governments \u2014 the Soviet Union, the United States and China.<\/p>\n<p>Related: israel\u2019s 1st moon lander beresheet in pictures. <\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/israel-moon-lander-maneuver-for-lunar-arrival.html\">https:\/\/www.space.com\/israel-moon-lander-maneuver-for-lunar-arrival.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 5-foot-tall (1.5 meters) Beresheet fired its engines for a little over a minute early this morning (April 1), altering its trajectory slightly to prepare for a planned capture into lunar orbit on Thursday (April 4). If all goes according to plan, the robotic lander will touch down on the moon one week later, on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89151","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=89151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}