{"id":225164,"date":"2015-02-11T06:32:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T10:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"d7bed600f668e5ca3946b628f9a81d18"},"modified":"2015-02-11T06:32:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T10:32:00","slug":"vega-vv04-ready-for-liftoff-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=225164","title":{"rendered":"Vega VV04 ready for liftoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2015\/02\/vega_vv04_ready_for_liftoff10\/15248906-3-eng-GB\/Vega_VV04_ready_for_liftoff_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"95\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nESA\u2019s Vega VV04 rocket, carrying IXV, is ready for liftoff, at Europe&#8217;s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on 11 February 2015.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIXV will be launched 320 km into space on top of a Vega rocket, VV04, climbing up to 420 km before beginning a long glide back through the atmosphere. In the process, IXV will gather data on reentry conditions to help guide the design of future spaceplanes.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMore about IXV: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Launchers\/IXV\">http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Launchers\/IXV<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nConnect with IXV on Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/esa_ixv\">twitter.com\/esa_ixv&nbsp;<\/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\/images\/2015\/02\/vega_vv04_ready_for_liftoff10\/15248906-3-eng-GB\/Vega_VV04_ready_for_liftoff_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"95\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nESA\u2019s Vega VV04 rocket, carrying IXV, is ready for liftoff, at Europe&#8217;s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on 11 February 2015.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIXV will be launched 320 km into space on top of a Vega rocket, VV04, climbing up to 420 km before beginning a long glide back through the atmosphere. In the process, IXV will gather data on reentry conditions to help guide the design of future spaceplanes.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMore about IXV: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Launchers\/IXV\">http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Launchers\/IXV<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nConnect with IXV on Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/esa_ixv\">twitter.com\/esa_ixv&nbsp;<\/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-225164","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\/225164","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=225164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225164\/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=225164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=225164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=225164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}