{"id":625005,"date":"2019-07-23T08:40:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-23T12:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=625005"},"modified":"2019-07-23T08:40:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T12:40:00","slug":"second-laser-boosts-aeolus-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=625005","title":{"rendered":"Second laser boosts Aeolus power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Wind_measurements_from_Aeolus_second_laser_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nESA\u2019s Aeolus satellite, which carries the world\u2019s first space Doppler wind lidar, has been delivering high-quality global measurements of Earth\u2019s wind since it was launched almost a year ago. However, part of the instrument, the laser transmitter, has been slowly losing energy. As a result, ESA decided to switch over to the instrument\u2019s second laser \u2013 and the mission is now back on top form.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Observing_the_Earth\/Aeolus\/Second_laser_boosts_Aeolus_power\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Second laser boosts Aeolus power<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESA\u2019s Aeolus satellite, which carries the world\u2019s first space Doppler wind lidar, has been delivering high-quality global measurements of Earth\u2019s wind since it was launched almost a year ago. However,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":625006,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-625005","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\/625005","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=625005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/625006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=625005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=625005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=625005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}