{"id":547544,"date":"2018-11-16T05:34:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T09:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=f1b4e845c36802e6860c1f19024736c7"},"modified":"2018-11-16T05:34:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T09:34:00","slug":"electric-blue-thrusters-propelling-bepicolombo-to-mercury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=547544","title":{"rendered":"Electric blue thrusters propelling BepiColombo to Mercury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2018\/11\/twin_ion_thrusters_firing\/18897282-3-eng-GB\/Twin_ion_thrusters_firing_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"107\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nIn mid-December, twin discs will begin glowing blue on the underside of a minibus-sized spacecraft in deep space. At that moment Europe and Japan\u2019s BepiColombo mission will have just come a crucial step closer to Mercury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2018\/11\/twin_ion_thrusters_firing\/18897282-3-eng-GB\/Twin_ion_thrusters_firing_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"107\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nIn mid-December, twin discs will begin glowing blue on the underside of a minibus-sized spacecraft in deep space. At that moment Europe and Japan&rsquo;s BepiColombo mission will have just come a crucial step closer to Mercury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ESA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547544","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\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=547544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":547545,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547544\/revisions\/547545"}],"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=547544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=547544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=547544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}