{"id":638,"date":"2013-10-06T09:36:07","date_gmt":"2013-10-06T09:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/18.234.222.17\/2013\/10\/06\/ladee_is_in_lunar_orbit\/"},"modified":"2013-10-06T09:36:07","modified_gmt":"2013-10-06T09:36:07","slug":"ladee_is_in_lunar_orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/?p=638","title":{"rendered":"LADEE Is In Lunar Orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.spaceref.com\/news\/LADEE.engines.jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"right\"><\/i>According to someone at NASA:  <i>&#8220;Early this morning (October 6), we fired LADEE&#8217;s main engine in a braking maneuver known as the Lunar Orbit Insertion (LOI) burn. This slowed the spacecraft&#8217;s velocity enough for it to be captured by the Moon&#8217;s gravity. This critical burn went flawlessly and LADEE is now in lunar orbit! Two more main engine burns, on October 9 and 12 will adjust LADEE&#8217;s trajectory, settling it into its commissioning orbit.&#8221;<\/i><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lunar_Atmosphere_and_Dust_Environment_Explorer\">LADEE Wikipedia Page<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to someone at NASA: &#8220;Early this morning (October 6), we fired LADEE&#8217;s main engine in a braking maneuver known as the Lunar Orbit Insertion (LOI) burn. This slowed the spacecraft&#8217;s velocity enough for it to be captured by the Moon&#8217;s gravity. This critical burn went flawlessly and LADEE is now in lunar orbit! Two &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/?p=638\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;LADEE Is In Lunar Orbit&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ladee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}