{"id":237099,"date":"2013-08-28T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=9bf62fb0ea92f09704e3c3171ef23b72"},"modified":"2013-08-28T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T00:00:00","slug":"start-up-of-payload-preparations-brings-europes-gaia-another-step-closer-to-its-mission-to-map-a-billion-stars-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=237099","title":{"rendered":"Start-up of payload preparations brings Europe&#8217;s Gaia another step closer to its mission to map a billion stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Europe&#8217;s billion-star surveyor, Gaia, is getting its first glimpse of the Spaceport where payload preparations have commenced for this spacecraft&#8217;s launch on an Arianespace Soyuz mission later in 2013.<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Arianespace?a=cyNK2wuv4jc:XBV153oJxRA:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Arianespace?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Arianespace?a=cyNK2wuv4jc:XBV153oJxRA:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Arianespace?i=cyNK2wuv4jc:XBV153oJxRA:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Arianespace?a=cyNK2wuv4jc:XBV153oJxRA:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Arianespace?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Arianespace?a=cyNK2wuv4jc:XBV153oJxRA:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Arianespace?i=cyNK2wuv4jc:XBV153oJxRA:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Arianespace?a=cyNK2wuv4jc:XBV153oJxRA:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Arianespace?i=cyNK2wuv4jc:XBV153oJxRA:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Arianespace\/~4\/cyNK2wuv4jc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Europe&#8217;s billion-star surveyor, Gaia, is getting its first glimpse of the Spaceport where payload preparations have commenced for this spacecraft&#8217;s launch on an Arianespace Soyuz mission later in 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Arianespace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237099","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=237099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237100,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237099\/revisions\/237100"}],"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=237099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=237099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=237099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}