{"id":295,"date":"2001-12-28T15:44:03","date_gmt":"2001-12-28T23:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=295"},"modified":"2019-11-26T08:54:19","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T16:54:19","slug":"ion-drive-in-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2001\/12\/28\/ion-drive-in-operation\/","title":{"rendered":"Ion Drive in operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:15385,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.nasa.gov&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260313164027\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.nasa.gov\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.nasa.gov\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-24 12:22:40&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-01 15:15:06&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-05 05:16:48&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-08 16:07:22&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-14 17:43:17&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-21 20:08:33&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-21 20:08:33&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16654,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/nmp.jpl.nasa.gov\\\/ds1&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20160818190701\\\/http:\\\/\\\/nmp.jpl.nasa.gov:80\\\/ds1\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 12:42:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-19 15:45:43&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-24 12:22:40&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-01 15:15:06&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 00:20:48&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-14 17:43:15&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-14 17:43:15&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16655,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.cnn.com\\\/2001\\\/TECH\\\/space\\\/12\\\/19\\\/advanced.probe\\\/index.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.cnn.com\\\/2001\\\/TECH\\\/space\\\/12\\\/19\\\/advanced.probe\\\/index.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16656,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/nmp.jpl.nasa.gov\\\/ds1\\\/tech\\\/sep.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16319,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.startrek.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260314062324\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.startrek.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-19 15:45:38&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-24 12:22:43&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-28 17:31:30&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-01 15:15:08&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-05 13:05:56&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-08 13:46:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-12 09:34:34&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 12:15:33&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 12:15:33&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/\" title=\"National Aeronautics and Space Administration\">NASA<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/nmp.jpl.nasa.gov\/ds1\/\" title=\"NASA: Deep Space 1\">Deep Space 1<\/a> probe has just been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2001\/TECH\/space\/12\/19\/advanced.probe\/index.html\" title=\"CNN: NASA pulls plug on trailblazing probe\">officially decommissioned<\/a>, slightly over two years after its planned End of Mission date. What caught my eye on this was that DS1 was the first experimental spacecraft to test an <a href=\"http:\/\/nmp.jpl.nasa.gov\/ds1\/tech\/sep.html\" title=\"Nasa: DS1: Ion Engine\">Ion Engine<\/a> &#8212; a technology developed in the 1960&#8217;s, and for many people, first mentioned on TV&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startrek.com\/\" title=\"Star Trek\">Star Trek<\/a>. Apparently the little craft did pretty well for itself. About time NASA had a success!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently NASA&#8217;s Deep Space 1 probe has just been officially decommissioned, slightly over two years after its planned End of Mission date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2038],"tags":[514],"class_list":["post-295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}