{"id":285340,"date":"2017-03-09T16:40:03","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T20:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=9da3377552bb2fc5102c89311b33832c"},"modified":"2017-03-09T16:40:03","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T20:40:03","slug":"new-nasa-radar-technique-finds-lost-lunar-spacecraft-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=285340","title":{"rendered":"New NASA radar technique finds lost lunar spacecraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finding derelict spacecraft and space debris in Earth&#8217;s orbit can be a technological challenge. Detecting these objects in orbit around Earth&#8217;s moon is even more difficult. Optical telescopes are unable to search for small objects hidden in the bright glare of the moon. However, a new technological application of interplanetary radar pioneered by scientists at NASA&#8217;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, has successfully located spacecraft orbiting the moon\u2014one active, and one dormant. This new technique could assist planners of future moon missions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finding derelict spacecraft and space debris in Earth&#8217;s orbit can be a technological challenge. Detecting these objects in orbit around Earth&#8217;s moon is even more difficult. Optical telescopes are unable to search for small objects hidden in the bright glare of the moon. However, a new technological application of interplanetary radar pioneered by scientists at NASA&#8217;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, has successfully located spacecraft orbiting the moon&mdash;one active, and one dormant. This new technique could assist planners of future moon missions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285340","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"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=285340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285341,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285340\/revisions\/285341"}],"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=285340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=285340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=285340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}