{"id":469704,"date":"2018-05-02T10:40:01","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T14:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=4d3883c13fbbc72104cee006ae7a8c1f"},"modified":"2018-05-02T10:40:01","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T14:40:01","slug":"rossi-x-ray-timing-explorer-ends-mission-after-listening-to-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=469704","title":{"rendered":"Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer ends mission after &#8216;listening&#8217; to the universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On May 1, NASA&#8217;s Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer spacecraft reentered and burned up in Earth&#8217;s atmosphere. Although not as well-known to the public as Hubble and Chandra, RXTE ranks among NASA&#8217;s most successful astrophysics missions. For the past 16 years RXTE continuously &#8220;listened&#8221; to the streams of X-ray radiation coming from black holes, neutron stars and pulsars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 1, NASA&#8217;s Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer spacecraft reentered and burned up in Earth&#8217;s atmosphere. Although not as well-known to the public as Hubble and Chandra, RXTE ranks among NASA&#8217;s most successful astrophysics missions. For the past 16 years &#8230;<\/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-469704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469704","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=469704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":469705,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469704\/revisions\/469705"}],"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=469704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=469704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=469704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}