{"id":2095,"date":"2010-12-03T06:02:06","date_gmt":"2010-12-03T06:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/blog\/?p=2095"},"modified":"2010-12-03T06:02:06","modified_gmt":"2010-12-03T06:02:06","slug":"forgotten-missions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/?p=2095","title":{"rendered":"Forgotten Missions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We did some small scale platform tests back in 1999. Remember when that year sounded like the future? The platform is about fifteen feet across. The blue balloons were used for these low altitude tether flights. This test was a preliminary run for Away 5, our first free flight platform mission.\u00a0 To simulate free flight we supported the tether with balloons. This kept\u00a0 the weight of the line from pulling on the platform.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/balloonframe31.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-2104\" title=\"balloonframe3\" src=\"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/balloonframe31-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/balloonframe3_closeup.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-2105\" title=\"balloonframe3_closeup\" src=\"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/balloonframe3_closeup-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We did some small scale platform tests back in 1999. Remember when that year sounded like the future? The platform is about fifteen feet across. The blue balloons were used for these low altitude tether flights. This test was a preliminary run for Away 5, our first free flight platform mission.\u00a0 To simulate free flight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}