{"id":219875,"date":"2014-04-22T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b983c9ca4fc6da0f8597a6df77ee6d13"},"modified":"2014-04-22T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-04-22T22:00:00","slug":"vega-goes-commercial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=219875","title":{"rendered":"Vega goes commercial"},"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\/2014\/04\/vega_goes_commercial\/14485768-2-eng-GB\/VEGA_goes_commercial_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nVega is being prepared for its third flight at Europe\u2019s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. This is a commercial launch operated by Arianespace to deliver Kazakhstan&#8217;s first Earth observation satellite into orbit.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nA flawless maiden flight in February 2012 was followed in May 2013 by the first of four \u2018Verta\u2019 flights to prove the system\u2019s flexibility. A commercial liftoff so soon, demonstrates the confidence of the market in ESA&#8217;s latest launcher, Vega.\n<\/p>\n<p>ESA is currently adapting its launcher programmes to fit the evolving satellite market, while at the same time maintaining independent access to space for Europe.<br \/>This video shows the Vega launch campaign in Kourou, as well as images of Soyuz and Ariane 5 with graphics of Ariane 6 and includes an interview with Gaele Winters, ESA Director of Launchers.<\/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\/2014\/04\/vega_goes_commercial\/14485768-2-eng-GB\/VEGA_goes_commercial_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nVega is being prepared for its third flight at Europe\u2019s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. This is a commercial launch operated by Arianespace to deliver Kazakhstan&#8217;s first Earth observation satellite into orbit.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nA flawless maiden flight in February 2012 was followed in May 2013 by the first of four \u2018Verta\u2019 flights to prove the system\u2019s flexibility. A commercial liftoff so soon, demonstrates the confidence of the market in ESA&#8217;s latest launcher, Vega.\n<\/p>\n<p>ESA is currently adapting its launcher programmes to fit the evolving satellite market, while at the same time maintaining independent access to space for Europe.<br \/>This video shows the Vega launch campaign in Kourou, as well as images of Soyuz and Ariane 5 with graphics of Ariane 6 and includes an interview with Gaele Winters, ESA Director of Launchers.<\/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-219875","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\/219875","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=219875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219895,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219875\/revisions\/219895"}],"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=219875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=219875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=219875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}