{"id":2636,"date":"2013-06-05T17:11:40","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T17:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2636"},"modified":"2013-06-05T17:11:40","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T17:11:40","slug":"imaging-the-bion-m1-spacecraft-while-it-was-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2636","title":{"rendered":"Imaging the Bion-M1 spacecraft while it was in space"},"content":{"rendered":"

Astrophotographer\u00a0 Ralf Vandebergh<\/a> writes about imaging<\/a> the Russian Bion-M1 satellite during its recent flight:\u00a0 Ground-based Images of Bion-M1 Spacecraft – Space Safety Magazine – June.5.13<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He captured an image<\/a> of the spacecraft with “surprising resolution [at]\u00a0 a range of 581 kilometers and an altitude of 575 kilometers”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Astrophotographer\u00a0 Ralf Vandebergh writes about imaging the Russian Bion-M1 satellite during its recent flight:\u00a0 Ground-based Images of Bion-M1 Spacecraft – Space Safety Magazine – June.5.13. He captured an image of the spacecraft with “surprising resolution [at]\u00a0 a range of 581 kilometers and an altitude of 575 kilometers”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellite-watching","category-space-participation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-Gw","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2412,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2412","url_meta":{"origin":2636,"position":0},"title":"Bion M1 returns safely but many test animals did not survive the flight","author":"TopSpacer","date":"May 21, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The Russian Bion M1, launched on April 19, 2013 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, and returned on May 19th. 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