{"id":513560,"date":"2018-08-24T15:30:02","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T19:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=9706218ed0456ff190bba10eb5ef799a"},"modified":"2018-08-24T15:30:02","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T19:30:02","slug":"nasas-osiris-rex-begins-asteroid-operations-campaign-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=513560","title":{"rendered":"NASA&#8217;s OSIRIS-REx begins asteroid operations campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After an almost two-year journey, NASA&#8217;s asteroid sampling spacecraft, the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx), caught its first glimpse of asteroid Bennu last week and began the final approach toward its target. Kicking off the mission&#8217;s asteroid operations campaign on Aug. 17, the spacecraft&#8217;s PolyCam camera obtained the image from a distance of 1.3 million miles (2.1 million km).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After an almost two-year journey, NASA&#8217;s asteroid sampling spacecraft, the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx), caught its first glimpse of asteroid Bennu last week and began the final appr&#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-513560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513560","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=513560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":513561,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513560\/revisions\/513561"}],"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=513560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=513560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=513560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}