{"id":220846,"date":"2014-08-18T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-18T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"8a958e1fc80a1c7892652c35412e7707"},"modified":"2014-08-18T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-18T22:00:00","slug":"galileo-deployment-phase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=220846","title":{"rendered":"Galileo deployment phase"},"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\/07\/galileo_deployment_phase\/14663162-2-eng-GB\/Galileo_deployment_phase_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nOn 21 August, at 12:31 UTC\/14:31 CEST, a Soyuz rocket will launch the fifth and six Galileo satellites from Europe&#8217;s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThese are the first \u2018Full Operational Capability\u2019 satellites for the deployment phase of Galileo, following the so-called &#8216;In Orbit Validation\u2019 (IOV) phase, which allowed the European Space Agency to make sure that the design of the Galileo system provided its expected performance both in space and on the ground.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nNow it is time to build the full Galileo constellation, allowing full deployment to take place, the IOV satellites having paved the way for this European navigation programme, the first civilian system with worldwide services.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis phase of the Galileo programme is being managed and funded by the European Commission, with ESA acting as design and procurement agent on behalf of the Commission.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis video recalls the success of the In Orbit Validation phase and explains what will be the mission of these fifth and sixth Galileo satellites. &nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIt includes an interview with Sylvain Loddo, Galileo Ground Segment Manager.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nVisit our website for more about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Navigation\/The_future_-_Galileo\/Launching_Galileo\">Launching Galileo<\/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\/2014\/07\/galileo_deployment_phase\/14663162-2-eng-GB\/Galileo_deployment_phase_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nOn 21 August, at 12:31 UTC\/14:31 CEST, a Soyuz rocket will launch the fifth and six Galileo satellites from Europe&#8217;s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThese are the first \u2018Full Operational Capability\u2019 satellites for the deployment phase of Galileo, following the so-called &#8216;In Orbit Validation\u2019 (IOV) phase, which allowed the European Space Agency to make sure that the design of the Galileo system provided its expected performance both in space and on the ground.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nNow it is time to build the full Galileo constellation, allowing full deployment to take place, the IOV satellites having paved the way for this European navigation programme, the first civilian system with worldwide services.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis phase of the Galileo programme is being managed and funded by the European Commission, with ESA acting as design and procurement agent on behalf of the Commission.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis video recalls the success of the In Orbit Validation phase and explains what will be the mission of these fifth and sixth Galileo satellites. &nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIt includes an interview with Sylvain Loddo, Galileo Ground Segment Manager.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nVisit our website for more about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Navigation\/The_future_-_Galileo\/Launching_Galileo\">Launching Galileo<\/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-220846","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\/220846","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=220846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220846\/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=220846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=220846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=220846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}