{"id":94506,"date":"2019-08-06T22:43:32","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T05:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/lightsail-2-nears-2-weeks-of-solar-sailing"},"modified":"2019-08-06T22:43:32","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T05:43:32","slug":"lightsail-2-nears-2-weeks-of-solar-sailing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/lightsail-2-nears-2-weeks-of-solar-sailing","title":{"rendered":"LightSail 2 Nears 2 Weeks of Solar Sailing"},"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\/BqTan_4Fius?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Planetary Society\u2019s LightSail 2 spacecraft is continuing to sail on sunlight in Earth orbit. The high point, or apogee of the spacecraft\u2019s orbit around the Earth was 729 kilometers on Monday, 5 August\u2014an increase of 3.2 kilometers since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetary.org\/blogs\/jason-davis\/lightsail-2-successful-flight-by-light.html\">sail deployment on 23 July<\/a>. The spacecraft has also captured a few new images, which are available on our <a href=\"https:\/\/planetary.s3.amazonaws.com\/data\/ls2\/all.html\">raw image downlink page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Planetary Society\u2019s LightSail 2 spacecraft is continuing to sail on sunlight in Earth orbit. The high point, or apogee of the spacecraft\u2019s orbit around the Earth was 729 kilometers on Monday, 5 August\u2014an increase of 3.2 kilometers since sail deployment on 23 July. The spacecraft has also captured a few new images, which are [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94506","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\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}