{"id":240103,"date":"2016-03-18T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=5b8faff853e8d21a7e3ba28fc1591568"},"modified":"2016-03-18T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T23:00:00","slug":"gyroscopes-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=240103","title":{"rendered":"Gyroscopes in space"},"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\/2016\/03\/gyroscopes_in_space\/15889944-1-eng-GB\/Gyroscopes_in_space_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nGyroscopes form an important in keeping the International Space Station and satellites pointing the right way as they orbit our planet.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nESA astronaut Tim Peake shows how gyroscopes can be used to keep spacecraft stable during his six-month Principia mission.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThere is no up or down in space. Satellites track their pointing direction using the same approach as on submarines and aircraft: fast-spinning gyroscopes that maintain a fixed orientation in the same way as a child\u2019s spinning top. The International Space Station has four big gyroscopes which are used for stabilization of the station.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFollow Tim Peake via timpeake.esa.int\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMore about Principia: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/principia\">www.esa.int\/principia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2016\/03\/gyroscopes_in_space\/15889944-1-eng-GB\/Gyroscopes_in_space_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nGyroscopes form an important in keeping the International Space Station and satellites pointing the right way as they orbit our planet.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nESA astronaut Tim Peake shows how gyroscopes can be used to keep spacecraft stable during his six-month Principia mission.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThere is no up or down in space. Satellites track their pointing direction using the same approach as on submarines and aircraft: fast-spinning gyroscopes that maintain a fixed orientation in the same way as a child&rsquo;s spinning top. The International Space Station has four big gyroscopes which are used for stabilization of the station.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFollow Tim Peake via timpeake.esa.int\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMore about Principia: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/principia\">www.esa.int\/principia<\/a><\/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-240103","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\/240103","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=240103"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240155,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240103\/revisions\/240155"}],"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=240103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=240103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=240103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}