{"id":760815,"date":"2023-07-19T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=760815"},"modified":"2023-07-19T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T12:00:00","slug":"replay-aeolus-reentry-media-briefing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=760815","title":{"rendered":"Replay: Aeolus reentry media briefing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Replay_Aeolus_reentry_media_briefing_card_full.png\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n\tVideo:<br \/>\n\t\t\t00:45:00<\/p>\n<p>After completing its mission in orbit, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Applications\/Observing_the_Earth\/FutureEO\/Aeolus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ESA\u2019s wind mission Aeolus<\/a>\u00a0will soon reenter Earth&#8217;s atmosphere. Currently orbiting 320 km above, Aeolus is being kept in orbit with its remaining fuel. This fuel is running out, and the satellite will soon succumb\u00a0to Earth\u2019s atmosphere and gravity.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Going above and beyond what the satellite was technically designed to do, ESA is attempting a first-of-its-kind assisted reentry to reduce the (already very small) risk of damage from any fragments that survive the journey and reach the ground.<\/p>\n<p>ESA held an online media briefing on 19 July 2023 to explain more about this assisted approach and answer questions.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Videos\/2023\/07\/Replay_Aeolus_reentry_media_briefing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Replay: Aeolus reentry media briefing<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video: 00:45:00 After completing its mission in orbit, ESA\u2019s wind mission Aeolus\u00a0will soon reenter Earth&#8217;s atmosphere. Currently orbiting 320 km above, Aeolus is being kept in orbit with its remaining&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":760816,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-760815","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\/760815","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=760815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/760816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=760815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=760815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=760815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}