{"id":348366,"date":"2017-07-18T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=893bb3243989aaf88f117368e97d330f"},"modified":"2017-07-18T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T07:00:00","slug":"lisa-pathfinder-end-of-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=348366","title":{"rendered":"Lisa Pathfinder end of Mission"},"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\/2017\/07\/lisa_pathfinder_end_of_mission\/17061688-3-eng-GB\/Lisa_Pathfinder_end_of_Mission_small.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThe LISA Pathfinder mission ends on 18 July 2017 after a successful demonstration of the technology needed to detect gravitational waves in space. These vibrations in spacetime, first predicted by Einstein over a hundred years ago, are produced by huge astronomical events &#8211; such as two black holes colliding &#8211; and will allow scientists to open new windows into our universe.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe success of the LISA Pathfinder mission has paved the way for the newly selected LISA mission which, when built and launched, will detect gravitational waves from objects up to a million times larger than our Sun.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe film features interview soundbites from Dr Paul McNamara, LISA Pathfinder Project Scientist, at the European Space Agency\u2019s European Technology and Science facility (ESTEC) in The Netherlands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2017\/07\/lisa_pathfinder_end_of_mission\/17061688-3-eng-GB\/Lisa_Pathfinder_end_of_Mission_small.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nThe LISA Pathfinder mission ends on 18 July 2017 after a successful demonstration of the technology needed to detect gravitational waves in space. These vibrations in spacetime, first predicted by Einstein over a hundred years ago, are produced by huge astronomical events &#8211; such as two black holes colliding &#8211; and will allow scientists to open new windows into our universe.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe success of the LISA Pathfinder mission has paved the way for the newly selected LISA mission which, when built and launched, will detect gravitational waves from objects up to a million times larger than our Sun.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe film features interview soundbites from Dr Paul McNamara, LISA Pathfinder Project Scientist, at the European Space Agency&rsquo;s European Technology and Science facility (ESTEC) in The Netherlands.<\/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-348366","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\/348366","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=348366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":348367,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348366\/revisions\/348367"}],"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=348366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=348366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=348366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}