{"id":197443,"date":"2013-05-07T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"7bbfc1e46f4a28543610bf0e8600ab21"},"modified":"2013-05-07T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-07T06:00:00","slug":"vega-vv02-liftoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=197443","title":{"rendered":"Vega VV02 Liftoff"},"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_liftoff3\/12665449-3-eng-GB\/Vega_VV02_Liftoff_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThe second flight of ESA\u2019s newest launch vehicle has been completed from Europe\u2019s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. Two Earth observation satellites, ESA\u2019s Proba-V and Vietnam\u2019s VNREDSat\u20111A, were released into different orbits, demonstrating the rocket\u2019s versatility. Estonia\u2019s first satellite, the ESTCube\u20111 technology demonstrator, was also released into orbit.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nVega lifted off at 02:06 GMT on 7 May 2013 (23:06 local time 6 May; 04:06 CEST 7 May) on a complex mission requiring five upper-stage boosts.<\/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_liftoff3\/12665449-3-eng-GB\/Vega_VV02_Liftoff_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThe second flight of ESA\u2019s newest launch vehicle has been completed from Europe\u2019s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. Two Earth observation satellites, ESA\u2019s Proba-V and Vietnam\u2019s VNREDSat\u20111A, were released into different orbits, demonstrating the rocket\u2019s versatility. Estonia\u2019s first satellite, the ESTCube\u20111 technology demonstrator, was also released into orbit.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nVega lifted off at 02:06 GMT on 7 May 2013 (23:06 local time 6 May; 04:06 CEST 7 May) on a complex mission requiring five upper-stage boosts.<\/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-197443","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\/197443","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=197443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197443\/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=197443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=197443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=197443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}