{"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":"<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":[],"categories":[2038],"tags":[514],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295"}],"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}]}}