{"id":761727,"date":"2023-07-29T02:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-29T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=761727"},"modified":"2023-07-29T02:30:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-29T06:30:00","slug":"aeolus-a-historic-end-to-a-trailblazing-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=761727","title":{"rendered":"Aeolus: a historic end to a trailblazing mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Understanding_Earth_s_winds_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"Understanding Earth&#x2019;s winds\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Surpassing scientific expectations and exceeding its planned life in orbit, the Aeolus wind mission has been hailed as one of ESA\u2019s most successful Earth observation missions. And now, its end will go down in history too, thanks to the ingenuity of the Agency\u2019s mission control team who guided this remarkable satellite down to Earth\u2019s atmosphere for a safe reentry.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Applications\/Observing_the_Earth\/FutureEO\/Aeolus\/Aeolus_a_historic_end_to_a_trailblazing_mission\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Aeolus: a historic end to a trailblazing mission<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surpassing scientific expectations and exceeding its planned life in orbit, the Aeolus wind mission has been hailed as one of ESA\u2019s most successful Earth observation missions. And now, its end&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":761728,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-761727","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\/761727","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=761727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/761728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=761727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=761727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=761727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}