{"id":529120,"date":"2018-10-02T08:50:02","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T12:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=40aaabb5e4329d5f3593ab59649b9fea"},"modified":"2018-10-02T08:50:02","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T12:50:02","slug":"nasas-osiris-rex-executes-first-asteroid-approach-maneuver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=529120","title":{"rendered":"NASA&#8217;s OSIRIS-REx Executes First Asteroid Approach Maneuver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA&#8217;s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft executed its first Asteroid Approach Maneuver (AAM-1) today putting it on course for its scheduled arrival at the asteroid Bennu in December. The spacecraft&#8217;s main engine thrusters fired in a braking maneuver designed to slow the spacecraft&#8217;s speed relative to Bennu from approximately 1,100 mph (491 m\/sec) to 313 mph (140 m\/sec). The mission team will continue to examine telemetry and tracking data as they become available and will have more information on the results of the maneuver over the next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA&#8217;s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft executed its first Asteroid Approach Maneuver (AAM-1) today putting it on course for its scheduled arrival at the asteroid Bennu in December. The spacecraft&#8217;s main engine thrusters fired in a braking maneuver designed to sl&#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-529120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529120","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=529120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":529121,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529120\/revisions\/529121"}],"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=529120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=529120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=529120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}