{"id":708656,"date":"2021-11-17T12:00:40","date_gmt":"2021-11-17T16:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=708656"},"modified":"2021-11-17T12:00:40","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T16:00:40","slug":"iodine-powered-satellite-successfully-tested-in-space-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=708656","title":{"rendered":"Iodine-powered satellite successfully tested in space for first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many satellites use xenon as a propellant to help them change orbit or avoid collisions, but the gas is expensive \u2013 now we know iodine provides a cheaper alternative&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2297957-iodine-powered-satellite-successfully-tested-in-space-for-first-time\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&amp;utm_source=NSNS&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_content=space\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Iodine-powered satellite successfully tested in space for first time<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: New Scientist &#8211; Space&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many satellites use xenon as a propellant to help them change orbit or avoid collisions, but the gas is expensive \u2013 now we know iodine provides a cheaper alternative&#013; &#013;&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-708656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-scientist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708656","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=708656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708656\/revisions"}],"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=708656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=708656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=708656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}