{"id":2074,"date":"2006-06-19T20:14:23","date_gmt":"2006-06-20T01:14:23","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-06-19T20:14:23","modified_gmt":"2006-06-20T01:14:23","slug":"metop-1-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=2074","title":{"rendered":"MetOp 1 mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Arianespace Website provides updates on two international activities:<\/p>\n<p>A report from Paris details a press conference and symposium that marked 25 years of Ariane flights in support of the Indian space program.  The symposium was timed to mark the first mission for India; an Ariane 1 launch on June 19, 1981, which orbited the country&#8217;s Apple experimental satellite.  This milestone flight was the world&#8217;s first dual launch into geostationary transfer orbit.<\/p>\n<p>Also on the Arianespace Website is an update on preparations for the upcoming MetOp 1 flight on a Soyuz 2-1a vehicle from Baikonur, which will be performed by Arianespace&#8217;s Starsem affiliate in July.  Soyuz 2-1a is the upgraded version of Russia&#8217;s workhorse launcher, and it be used beginning in 2008 for Soyuz missions performed from Europe&#8217;s Spaceport in French Guiana under Arianespace management.<\/p>\n<p>For more details, visit the Arianespace Website at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arianespace.com\"   target=\"_blank\"  >http:\/\/www.arianespace.com  <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Arianespace Website provides updates on two international activities: A report from Paris details a press conference and symposium that marked 25 years of Ariane flights in support of the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Arianespace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2074","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2074\/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=2074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}