{"id":197447,"date":"2013-05-06T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"34dc7fbccc2313605cf19a6348cb23ab"},"modified":"2013-05-06T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-06T22:00:00","slug":"vega-launch-transmission-replay-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=197447","title":{"rendered":"Vega launch transmission replay &#8211; Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2013\/05\/vega_launch_transmission_replay_-_part_1\/12657468-7-eng-GB\/Vega_launch_transmission_replay_-_Part_1_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Liftoff of flight VV02 from Europe\u2019s Spaceport in French Guiana occurred at 04:06 CEST (02:06 GMT) on 7 May (23:06 local time on 6 May) at the opening of the launch window. <br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe Vega launcher has flawlessly delivered Proba-V into its planned Sun-synchronous circular orbit at 820 km altitude and an inclination of 98.73\u00ba. This occurred 55 minutes and 27 seconds after launch. VNRedsat and ESTCube-1 is&nbsp; released some two hours later.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>The Proba-V prime payload is the first of four ESA missions to use Vega as part of the Vega Research and Technology Accompaniment (VERTA) programme to demonstrate the system\u2019s flexibility. Proba-V carries a reduced version of the Vegetation camera currently flying on the Spot satellites to provide a daily overview of global vegetation growth.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/For_Media\/Press_Releases\/ESA_s_Vega_launcher_scores_new_success_with_Proba-V\">ESA&#8217;s Vega launcher scores new success with proba-v<\/a><\/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\/videos\/2013\/05\/vega_launch_transmission_replay_-_part_1\/12657468-7-eng-GB\/Vega_launch_transmission_replay_-_Part_1_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Liftoff of flight VV02 from Europe\u2019s Spaceport in French Guiana occurred at 04:06 CEST (02:06 GMT) on 7 May (23:06 local time on 6 May) at the opening of the launch window. <br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe Vega launcher has flawlessly delivered Proba-V into its planned Sun-synchronous circular orbit at 820 km altitude and an inclination of 98.73\u00ba. This occurred 55 minutes and 27 seconds after launch. VNRedsat and ESTCube-1 is&nbsp; released some two hours later.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>The Proba-V prime payload is the first of four ESA missions to use Vega as part of the Vega Research and Technology Accompaniment (VERTA) programme to demonstrate the system\u2019s flexibility. Proba-V carries a reduced version of the Vegetation camera currently flying on the Spot satellites to provide a daily overview of global vegetation growth.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/For_Media\/Press_Releases\/ESA_s_Vega_launcher_scores_new_success_with_Proba-V\">ESA&#8217;s Vega launcher scores new success with proba-v<\/a><\/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-197447","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\/197447","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=197447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197447\/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=197447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=197447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=197447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}