{"id":703719,"date":"2021-10-01T08:52:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T12:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=703719"},"modified":"2021-10-01T08:52:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T12:52:00","slug":"navigating-a-very-close-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=703719","title":{"rendered":"Navigating a very close approach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/BepiColombo_first_Mercury_flyby_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"BepiColombo first Mercury flyby\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tonight, <a href=\"\/Science_Exploration\/Space_Science\/BepiColombo_overview2\" title=\"About BepiColombo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">BepiColombo<\/a> will perform the first of six Mercury flybys, each honing the spacecrafts\u2019 trajectory with the ultimate goal of shedding enough energy \u2013 after its two years \u2018falling\u2019 towards the Sun \u2013 to be caught by the innermost planet\u2019s gravity and remain in Mercurial orbit.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Enabling_Support\/Operations\/Navigating_a_very_close_approach\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Navigating a very close approach<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight, BepiColombo will perform the first of six Mercury flybys, each honing the spacecrafts\u2019 trajectory with the ultimate goal of shedding enough energy \u2013 after its two years \u2018falling\u2019 towards&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":703720,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-703719","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\/703719","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=703719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/703720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=703719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=703719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=703719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}