{"id":903569,"date":"2026-05-05T05:19:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T10:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/lageos-an-earth-science-mission-built-for-enduring-precision\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T05:19:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T10:19:45","slug":"lageos-an-earth-science-mission-built-for-enduring-precision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/lageos-an-earth-science-mission-built-for-enduring-precision\/","title":{"rendered":"LAGEOS: An Earth Science Mission Built for Enduring Precision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature On May 4, 1976, a spacecraft resembling a disco ball entered orbit almost 3,700 miles (6,000 kilometers) above Earth. This shiny, two\u2011foot\u2011wide (60\u2011centimeter) sphere called the Laser Geodynamics Satellite, or LAGEOS, is covered with 426 retroreflectors\u2014small mirrored prisms designed to bounce laser light directly back to where it came from&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/missions\/lageos\/lageos-an-earth-science-mission-built-for-enduring-precision\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>Michele Ostovar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature On May 4, 1976, a spacecraft resembling a disco ball entered orbit almost 3,700 miles (6,000 kilometers) above Earth. This shiny, two\u2011foot\u2011wide (60\u2011centimeter) sphere called the Laser Geodynamics Satellite, or LAGEOS, is covered with 426 retroreflectors\u2014small mirrored prisms designed to bounce laser light directly back to where it came from&#8230;Read MoreMichele Ostovar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":903570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23029,149284,536],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-903569","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-earth","8":"category-lageos","9":"category-science-nature"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=903569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/903570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}