{"id":196458,"date":"2013-04-24T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"6cbf00166e6d1a95de430302fbf416ec"},"modified":"2013-04-24T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T10:00:00","slug":"vv02-fairing-integration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=196458","title":{"rendered":"VV02 fairing integration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2013\/04\/vv02_fairing_integration8\/12644549-8-eng-GB\/VV02_fairing_integration_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nProba-V fixed to the Vespa (Vega secondary payload adapter), above Vietnam\u2019s VNREDSat-1 Earth observation satellite and the ESTCube-1 Estonian student nanosatellite. On 17 April 2013 the stack of satellites was covered with the Vega protective fairing.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nProba-V will be the first of the three satellites to be deployed from the Vega\u2019s AVUM.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nLess than a cubic metre in volume, Proba-V is a miniaturised ESA satellite tasked with a full-scale mission: to map land cover and vegetation growth across the entire planet every two days.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nA new, advanced version of the \u2018Vegetation\u2019 camera will fly on Proba-V. This is the latest in a series already in service on France\u2019s full-sized Spot-4 and Spot-5 satellites, which have been observing Earth since 1998.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe minisatellite will provide data to the instrument\u2019s worldwide user community of scientists and service providers as soon as it is commissioned in orbit.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis second Vega flight marks the start of the Vega Research and Technology Accompaniment programme, or VERTA, to demonstrate the flexibility and versatility of the vehicle. At a planned minimum of two launches per year, the programme will allow the smooth transition of Vega into commercial exploitation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2013\/04\/vv02_fairing_integration8\/12644549-8-eng-GB\/VV02_fairing_integration_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nProba-V fixed to the Vespa (Vega secondary payload adapter), above Vietnam\u2019s VNREDSat-1 Earth observation satellite and the ESTCube-1 Estonian student nanosatellite. On 17 April 2013 the stack of satellites was covered with the Vega protective fairing.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nProba-V will be the first of the three satellites to be deployed from the Vega\u2019s AVUM.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nLess than a cubic metre in volume, Proba-V is a miniaturised ESA satellite tasked with a full-scale mission: to map land cover and vegetation growth across the entire planet every two days.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nA new, advanced version of the \u2018Vegetation\u2019 camera will fly on Proba-V. This is the latest in a series already in service on France\u2019s full-sized Spot-4 and Spot-5 satellites, which have been observing Earth since 1998.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe minisatellite will provide data to the instrument\u2019s worldwide user community of scientists and service providers as soon as it is commissioned in orbit.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis second Vega flight marks the start of the Vega Research and Technology Accompaniment programme, or VERTA, to demonstrate the flexibility and versatility of the vehicle. At a planned minimum of two launches per year, the programme will allow the smooth transition of Vega into commercial exploitation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=196458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=196458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=196458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=196458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}