{"id":221444,"date":"2014-09-30T14:26:55","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T18:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/shared\/media\/photodb\/photos\/2014\/09\/140925-F-CH060-003.jpg"},"modified":"2014-09-30T14:26:55","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T18:26:55","slug":"capt-melissa-bierma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=221444","title":{"rendered":"Capt. Melissa Bierma"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Capt. Melissa Bierma\" src=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/shared\/media\/photodb\/web\/2014\/09\/140925-F-CH060-003.jpg\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\">\n<div>Capt. Melissa Bierma stands next to an engineering model of a GOES sounder satellite component Sept. 26, 2014, at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration\u2019s satellite operations facility in Suitland, Md. The GOES sounder is a radiometer designed to provide data that allows meteorologists to deduce atmospheric temperature and moisture profiles.  Bierma is satellite operator and executive officer with Detachment 1, 50th Space Operations Group. The geographically separated unit manages the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program \u2013 the only weather satellite system in the DOD \u2013 in cooperation with NOAA. (U.S. Air Force photo\/Senior Airman Alexander W. Riedel)<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/shared\/media\/photodb\/photos\/2014\/09\/140925-F-CH060-003.jpg\" >Download Full Image<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div \n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Capt. Melissa Bierma stands next to an engineering model of a GOES sounder satellite component Sept. 26, 2014, at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration\u2019s satellite operations facility in Suitland, Md. The GOES sounder is a radiometer de&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221444","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=221444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221444\/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=221444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=221444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=221444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}