{"id":10001,"date":"2011-07-26T20:56:47","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T20:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2011\/07\/26\/nasa-sets-launch-coverage-even\/"},"modified":"2011-07-26T20:56:47","modified_gmt":"2011-07-26T20:56:47","slug":"nasa-sets-launch-coverage-even","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/26\/nasa-sets-launch-coverage-even\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Sets Launch Coverage Events for Mission to Jupiter"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. &#8212; NASA&#8217;s Juno spacecraft is set to launch toward Jupiter aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket on Aug. 5. The launch window extends from 11:34 a.m. to 12:33 p.m. EDT (8:34 to 9:33 a.m. PDT), and the launch period extends through Aug. 26. <\/p>\n<p>The spacecraft is expected to arrive at Jupiter in 2016, on a mission to investigate the gas giant&#8217;s origins, structure, atmosphere and magnetosphere. Juno&#8217;s color camera will provide close-up images of Jupiter, including the first detailed views of the planets&#8217; poles.<\/p>\n<p>NASA will host a prelaunch news conference in the News Center at the agency&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday, Aug. 3, at 1 p.m. EDT<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/news\/news.cfm?release=2011-227&#038;cid=release_2011-227\">More info here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. &#8212; NASA&#8217;s Juno spacecraft is set to launch toward Jupiter aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket on Aug. 5. The launch window extends from 11:34 a.m. to 12:33 p.m. EDT (8:34 to 9:33 a.m. PDT), and the launch period extends through Aug. 26. The spacecraft is expected to arrive at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/26\/nasa-sets-launch-coverage-even\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NASA Sets Launch Coverage Events for Mission to Jupiter<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2Bj","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10001"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}