{"id":3924227,"date":"2026-03-03T12:03:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T17:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/a-690-million-kilometer-journey-through-space-ends-for-australias-spirit-mission\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T12:03:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T17:03:29","slug":"a-690-million-kilometer-journey-through-space-ends-for-australias-spirit-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/a-690-million-kilometer-journey-through-space-ends-for-australias-spirit-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"A 690-million-kilometer journey through space ends for Australia&#8217;s SpIRIT mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>After more than 25 months of successful operations in space, the SpIRIT mission has ended, marking a major milestone for Australia&#8217;s growing space capability. Led by the University of Melbourne, in collaboration with the Italian Space Agency, the Space Industry Responsive Intelligent Thermal (SpIRIT) nanosatellite exceeded its original two-year design life.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-03-million-kilometer-journey-space-australia.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After more than 25 months of successful operations in space, the SpIRIT mission has ended, marking a major milestone for Australia&#8217;s growing space capability. Led by the University of Melbourne, in collaboration with the Italian Space Agency, the Space Industry Responsive Intelligent Thermal (SpIRIT) nanosatellite exceeded its original two-year design life. <\/p>\n<p>Go to Source<\/p>\n<p> [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3924227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3924227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3924227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3924227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3924227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3924227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3924227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}