{"id":222088,"date":"2014-11-16T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-16T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"110d4bb7afe27a2b8cf3c5e1bd819901"},"modified":"2014-11-16T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-16T23:00:00","slug":"esas-technical-heart-celebrates-rosettas-philae-landing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=222088","title":{"rendered":"ESA&#8217;s technical heart celebrates Rosetta&#8217;s Philae landing"},"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\/11\/esa_s_technical_heart_celebrates_rosetta_s_philae_landing\/15058166-1-eng-GB\/ESA_s_technical_heart_celebrates_Rosetta_s_Philae_landing_small.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Celebrating the landing of Rosetta\u2019s Philae lander on 67P\/Churyumov\u2013Gerasimenko at ESA\u2019s technical heart. Along with the main Rosetta landing event taking place at ESA&#8217;s ESOC control centre, many other events took place all across Europe. More than a quarter of a century in the making, the Rosetta comet-chaser had been designed, planned and finally tested at ESTEC &#8211; ESA&#8217;s largest establishment, based in Noordwijk, the Netherlands &#8211; in advance of its 2004 launch.&nbsp;<br \/>More than 450 external guests, media representatives and Agency personnel gathered together at SpaceExpo, ESTEC\u2019s visitor centre, to follow the nail-biting Philae landing during the afternoon and evening of Wednesday 12 November 2014. ESTEC Director Franco Ongaro presided over the gathering, which was also attended by ESA astronaut Andr\u00e9 Kuipers, Rob van Hassel of Airbus Defence and Space Netherlands \u2013 who detailed the Dutch contributions to Rosetta \u2013 as well as comet expert Inge Loes ten Kate from Utrecht University.<\/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\/11\/esa_s_technical_heart_celebrates_rosetta_s_philae_landing\/15058166-1-eng-GB\/ESA_s_technical_heart_celebrates_Rosetta_s_Philae_landing_small.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Celebrating the landing of Rosetta\u2019s Philae lander on 67P\/Churyumov\u2013Gerasimenko at ESA\u2019s technical heart. Along with the main Rosetta landing event taking place at ESA&#8217;s ESOC control centre, many other events took place all across Europe. More than a quarter of a century in the making, the Rosetta comet-chaser had been designed, planned and finally tested at ESTEC &#8211; ESA&#8217;s largest establishment, based in Noordwijk, the Netherlands &#8211; in advance of its 2004 launch.&nbsp;<br \/>More than 450 external guests, media representatives and Agency personnel gathered together at SpaceExpo, ESTEC\u2019s visitor centre, to follow the nail-biting Philae landing during the afternoon and evening of Wednesday 12 November 2014. ESTEC Director Franco Ongaro presided over the gathering, which was also attended by ESA astronaut Andr\u00e9 Kuipers, Rob van Hassel of Airbus Defence and Space Netherlands \u2013 who detailed the Dutch contributions to Rosetta \u2013 as well as comet expert Inge Loes ten Kate from Utrecht University.<\/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-222088","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\/222088","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=222088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222088\/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=222088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=222088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=222088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}