{"id":196556,"date":"2013-05-03T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"f4b4a759bb1fcf74f282ef70c5e04cf9"},"modified":"2013-05-03T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-03T10:00:00","slug":"vega-vv02-all-set-for-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=196556","title":{"rendered":"Vega VV02 all set for launch"},"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\/05\/vega_vv02_all_set_for_launch\/12659947-1-eng-GB\/Vega_VV02_all_set_for_launch_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"95\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nESA\u2019s Vega VV02 rocket is fully assembled in its mobile gantry, 3 May, 2013.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nVega VV02 is the first of the five flights scheduled in ESA\u2019s Vega Research and Technology Accompaniment \u2013 VERTA \u2013 programme, which aims to demonstrate the flexibility of the launch system. At a minimum rate of two launches per year, the programme will allow the smooth introduction of Vega for commercial exploitation.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nVV02 will loft Proba-V, the first of four ESA missions, into space. Proba-V carries a reduced version of the Vegetation instrument currently flying on the Spot satellites to provide a daily overview of global vegetation growth.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis first VERTA flight will also demonstrate Vega&#8217;s capability to launch multiple payloads into two different orbits. Proba-V, the prime payload, will be released first. The remaining two payloads: Vietnam Natural Resources, Environment and Disaster Monitoring Satellite (VNREDSat-1) built by Astrium for the Vietnamese government and the Estonian cubesat (ESTCube-1) will be released later, into a different orbit.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nVega VV02 is scheduled for liftoff from Europe&#8217;s Spaceport, French Guiana, on 4 May, 2013 (GMT).<\/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\/05\/vega_vv02_all_set_for_launch\/12659947-1-eng-GB\/Vega_VV02_all_set_for_launch_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"95\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nESA\u2019s Vega VV02 rocket is fully assembled in its mobile gantry, 3 May, 2013.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nVega VV02 is the first of the five flights scheduled in ESA\u2019s Vega Research and Technology Accompaniment \u2013 VERTA \u2013 programme, which aims to demonstrate the flexibility of the launch system. At a minimum rate of two launches per year, the programme will allow the smooth introduction of Vega for commercial exploitation.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nVV02 will loft Proba-V, the first of four ESA missions, into space. Proba-V carries a reduced version of the Vegetation instrument currently flying on the Spot satellites to provide a daily overview of global vegetation growth.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis first VERTA flight will also demonstrate Vega&#8217;s capability to launch multiple payloads into two different orbits. Proba-V, the prime payload, will be released first. The remaining two payloads: Vietnam Natural Resources, Environment and Disaster Monitoring Satellite (VNREDSat-1) built by Astrium for the Vietnamese government and the Estonian cubesat (ESTCube-1) will be released later, into a different orbit.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nVega VV02 is scheduled for liftoff from Europe&#8217;s Spaceport, French Guiana, on 4 May, 2013 (GMT).<\/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-196556","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\/196556","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=196556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196556\/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=196556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=196556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=196556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}