{"id":1089,"date":"2011-09-12T20:17:14","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T20:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orbitalhub.com\/?p=1089"},"modified":"2011-09-12T20:17:14","modified_gmt":"2011-09-12T20:17:14","slug":"grail-spacecraft-separation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/?p=1089","title":{"rendered":"GRAIL Spacecraft Separation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: left; padding-right: 30px;\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 5px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 5px;\"><object width=\"580\" height=\"337\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/pKxiuk0MhA4?version=3&#038;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/pKxiuk0MhA4?version=3&#038;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"580\" height=\"337\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 5px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The GRAIL spacecraft separated from the upper stage of the Delta II launch vehicle and will travel to the Moon on a three and a half month low-energy transfer trajectory. The spacecraft take the scenic route, travelling to the Moon via the L1 Lagrange point, and saving fuel (around 130 m\/s less delta V required). GRAIL spacecraft will approach the Moon under the South Pole and enter the operational orbit, 50 km above the lunar surface.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/moon.mit.edu\/\">Read more about GRAIL mission&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 5px;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The GRAIL spacecraft separated from the upper stage of the Delta II launch vehicle and will travel to the Moon on a three and a half month low-energy transfer trajectory. The spacecraft take the scenic route, travelling to the Moon via the L1 Lagrange point, and saving fuel (around 130 m\/s less delta V required). GRAIL spacecraft will approach the Moon under the South Pole and enter the operationa&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[463],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orbitalhub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}