{"id":231432,"date":"2015-07-16T03:30:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-16T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"8317be5b7e1fdfefbb92ddd8790dbcc4"},"modified":"2015-07-16T03:30:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-16T07:30:00","slug":"msg-4-liftoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=231432","title":{"rendered":"MSG-4 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\/07\/msg-4_liftoff8\/15521775-2-eng-GB\/MSG-4_liftoff_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThe last weather satellite in Europe\u2019s highly successful Meteosat Second Generation (MTG) series lifted off on an Ariane 5 launcher at&nbsp;21:42 GMT (23:42 CEST) on 15 July from Europe\u2019s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The MSG satellites provide full-disc images over Europe and Africa every 15 minutes and \u2018rapid scan\u2019 imagery over Europe every five minutes. They are operated by Eumetsat \u2013 the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites \u2013 and ESA is responsible for their design, development and in-orbit delivery.&nbsp;<\/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\/07\/msg-4_liftoff8\/15521775-2-eng-GB\/MSG-4_liftoff_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThe last weather satellite in Europe\u2019s highly successful Meteosat Second Generation (MTG) series lifted off on an Ariane 5 launcher at&nbsp;21:42 GMT (23:42 CEST) on 15 July from Europe\u2019s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The MSG satellites provide full-disc images over Europe and Africa every 15 minutes and \u2018rapid scan\u2019 imagery over Europe every five minutes. They are operated by Eumetsat \u2013 the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites \u2013 and ESA is responsible for their design, development and in-orbit delivery.&nbsp;<\/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-231432","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\/231432","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=231432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231432\/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=231432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=231432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=231432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}