{"id":517006,"date":"2018-08-31T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=23f8a58d4a916e3affb0a92720b9c15f"},"modified":"2018-08-31T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T09:00:00","slug":"bye-bye-cygnus-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=517006","title":{"rendered":"Bye bye Cygnus"},"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\/2018\/08\/bye_bye_cygnus\/17661612-1-eng-GB\/Bye_bye_Cygnus_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nESA astronaut Alexander Gerst and NASA astronaut Serena Au\u00f1\u00f3n-Chancellor commanded the International Space Station\u2019s 16-m robotic arm to release a Cygnus supply spacecraft to burn up harmlessly over Earth.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe duo set up the robotic workstation in the European-built Cupola module to follow operations from the observatory. You can see Alexander opening the protective shutters from a window at the start of the video.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe spacecraft was released at 14:17 GMT on 15 July 2018 as the International Space Station flew over Colombia.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nCygnus spent two weeks orbiting Earth on its own allowing engineers to conduct tests as well as releasing a series of miniature satellites before ending its mission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2018\/08\/bye_bye_cygnus\/17661612-1-eng-GB\/Bye_bye_Cygnus_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nESA astronaut Alexander Gerst and NASA astronaut Serena Au&ntilde;&oacute;n-Chancellor commanded the International Space Station&rsquo;s 16-m robotic arm to release a Cygnus supply spacecraft to burn up harmlessly over Earth.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe duo set up the robotic workstation in the European-built Cupola module to follow operations from the observatory. You can see Alexander opening the protective shutters from a window at the start of the video.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe spacecraft was released at 14:17 GMT on 15 July 2018 as the International Space Station flew over Colombia.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nCygnus spent two weeks orbiting Earth on its own allowing engineers to conduct tests as well as releasing a series of miniature satellites before ending its mission.<\/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-517006","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\/517006","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=517006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":517007,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517006\/revisions\/517007"}],"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=517006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=517006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=517006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}