{"id":212483,"date":"2013-07-24T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"6237c85f70022f5494f8df9ceb7e2dc9"},"modified":"2013-07-24T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-24T22:00:00","slug":"ariane-5-liftoff-with-alphasat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=212483","title":{"rendered":"Ariane 5 liftoff with Alphasat"},"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\/07\/ariane_5_liftoff_with_alphasat\/12964858-6-eng-GB\/Ariane_5_liftoff_with_Alphasat_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nWatch the replay of an Ariane 5 liftoff with Alphasat on board on 25 July, 2013, from French Guiana.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAlphasat is a large telecommunications satellite primarily designed to expand Inmarsat\u2019s existing global mobile network. It was engineered and built by Astrium through a public\u2013private partnership between ESA and Inmarsat. Along with providing a significant increase in service for Inmarsat\u2019s fleet, it also serves as a first flight for Alphabus, the new European telecom platform developed by Astrium and Thales Alenia Space under a joint contract with ESA and France\u2019s CNES space agency.<\/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\/07\/ariane_5_liftoff_with_alphasat\/12964858-6-eng-GB\/Ariane_5_liftoff_with_Alphasat_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nWatch the replay of an Ariane 5 liftoff with Alphasat on board on 25 July, 2013, from French Guiana.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAlphasat is a large telecommunications satellite primarily designed to expand Inmarsat\u2019s existing global mobile network. It was engineered and built by Astrium through a public\u2013private partnership between ESA and Inmarsat. Along with providing a significant increase in service for Inmarsat\u2019s fleet, it also serves as a first flight for Alphabus, the new European telecom platform developed by Astrium and Thales Alenia Space under a joint contract with ESA and France\u2019s CNES space agency.<\/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-212483","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\/212483","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=212483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212483\/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=212483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=212483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=212483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}