{"id":84726,"date":"2011-06-08T19:21:34","date_gmt":"2011-06-08T11:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/nasa-hitchhikes-oceanography-instrument-on-argentine-aquarius-satellite\/"},"modified":"2011-06-08T19:21:34","modified_gmt":"2011-06-08T11:21:34","slug":"nasa-hitchhikes-oceanography-instrument-on-argentine-aquarius-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/nasa-hitchhikes-oceanography-instrument-on-argentine-aquarius-satellite\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Hitchhikes Oceanography Instrument on Argentine Aquarius Satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[06-08-11] A <b>United Launch Alliance<\/b> Delta 2 rocket is set to launch the Argentine SAC-D satellite and a hitchhiking NASA instrument June 9 from the Vandenberg U.S. Air Force Base, NASA confirmed June 7.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp; The Argentine SAC-D observatory carries a primary NASA instrument, dubbed Aquarius, which aims to measure ocean surface salinity to study interactions between ocean circulation, the water cycle and climate. Other SAC-D instruments on the Argentine satellite also will collect environmental data for a wide range of uses.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp; NASA invested $287 million in the instrument\u2019s design, development, launch and operations, according to agency officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[06-08-11] A United Launch Alliance Delta 2 rocket is set to launch the Argentine SAC-D satellite and a hitchhiking NASA instrument June 9 from the Vandenberg U.S. Air Force Base, NASA confirmed June 7. &nbsp;&nbsp; The Argentine SAC-D observatory carries a primary NASA instrument, dubbed Aquarius, which aims to measure ocean surface salinity to study [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84726"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}