{"id":220950,"date":"2014-08-31T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-31T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"61a19b327f9012ee8747f8e4c16c96f0"},"modified":"2014-08-31T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-31T22:00:00","slug":"atv-5-launch-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=220950","title":{"rendered":"ATV-5 launch campaign"},"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\/09\/atv-5_launch_campaign\/14764321-1-eng-GB\/ATV-5_launch_campaign_small.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThis time-lapse video shows&nbsp;the ATV-5 Georges Lemaitre loading&nbsp;process and its integration on the Ariane 5 launcher before its transfer and launch to the International Space Station from&nbsp;Europe&#8217;s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana on 29 July 2014.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe fifth in the series of the largest spacecraft ever built in&nbsp;Europe is also the heaviest load an Ariane 5 has ever launched.&nbsp;ATV-5 is set to carry almost 6.6 tonnes of supplies to the&nbsp;orbital outpost, including a record amount of dry cargo: around 2682 kg.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nGeorges Lema\u00eetres will deliver experiments, equipment, spare&nbsp;parts, water, air and even artwork to the six astronauts living&nbsp;in space.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nESA astronaut Alexander Gerst will be responsible for docking and&nbsp;unloading the cargo when ATV arrives at its destination around&nbsp;two weeks after launch.<\/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\/09\/atv-5_launch_campaign\/14764321-1-eng-GB\/ATV-5_launch_campaign_small.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThis time-lapse video shows&nbsp;the ATV-5 Georges Lemaitre loading&nbsp;process and its integration on the Ariane 5 launcher before its transfer and launch to the International Space Station from&nbsp;Europe&#8217;s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana on 29 July 2014.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe fifth in the series of the largest spacecraft ever built in&nbsp;Europe is also the heaviest load an Ariane 5 has ever launched.&nbsp;ATV-5 is set to carry almost 6.6 tonnes of supplies to the&nbsp;orbital outpost, including a record amount of dry cargo: around 2682 kg.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nGeorges Lema\u00eetres will deliver experiments, equipment, spare&nbsp;parts, water, air and even artwork to the six astronauts living&nbsp;in space.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nESA astronaut Alexander Gerst will be responsible for docking and&nbsp;unloading the cargo when ATV arrives at its destination around&nbsp;two weeks after launch.<\/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-220950","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\/220950","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=220950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220950\/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=220950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=220950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=220950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}