{"id":220866,"date":"2014-08-19T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"1b7394dc4bac4f388783ed8cbff80d08"},"modified":"2014-08-19T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-19T22:00:00","slug":"releasing-cygnus-timelapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=220866","title":{"rendered":"Releasing Cygnus (timelapse)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2014\/08\/releasing_cygnus_timelapse\/14725726-2-eng-GB\/Releasing_Cygnus_timelapse_small.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nTimelapse showing the Orbital Science&#8217;s Cygnus Orb-2 spacecraft departing from the International Space Station on 15 August 2014.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nESA astronaut Alexander Gerst set up a camera to shoot a series of photographs whilst he and his Expedition 40 colleague NASA&#8217;s Reid Wiseman operated the Station&#8217;s robotic arm to manoeuvre the visiting cargo spacecraft into position for release.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nA couple of days later, Cygnus Orb-2 burnt up in Earth&#8217;s atmosphere during a destructive reentry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2014\/08\/releasing_cygnus_timelapse\/14725726-2-eng-GB\/Releasing_Cygnus_timelapse_small.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nTimelapse showing the Orbital Science&#8217;s Cygnus Orb-2 spacecraft departing from the International Space Station on 15 August 2014.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nESA astronaut Alexander Gerst set up a camera to shoot a series of photographs whilst he and his Expedition 40 colleague NASA&#8217;s Reid Wiseman operated the Station&#8217;s robotic arm to manoeuvre the visiting cargo spacecraft into position for release.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nA couple of days later, Cygnus Orb-2 burnt up in Earth&#8217;s atmosphere during a destructive reentry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=220866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=220866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=220866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=220866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}