{"id":238428,"date":"2015-12-11T04:27:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T08:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=e53ea056848c434c42e725bef4a8c0b9"},"modified":"2015-12-11T04:27:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-11T08:27:00","slug":"galileo-11-and-12-prepared-for-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=238428","title":{"rendered":"Galileo 11 and 12 prepared for launch"},"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\/12\/galileo_11_and_12_prepared_for_launch\/15729092-1-eng-GB\/Galileo_11_and_12_prepared_for_launch_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nGalileo satellites 11 and 12 are mated with their distribution unit, which once complete is transferred for integration with the Soyuz Fregat launcher.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe latest Galileo satellites are scheduled to liftoff at 11:51 GMT on 17 December (12:51 CET; 08:51 Kourou time) from Europe\u2019s Spaceport in French Guiana on a Soyuz rocket. They are expected to become operational, after initial in-orbit testing, next spring.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis is the sixth Galileo launch overall and the third this year, set to bring the number of satellites in space up to 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2015\/12\/galileo_11_and_12_prepared_for_launch\/15729092-1-eng-GB\/Galileo_11_and_12_prepared_for_launch_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nGalileo satellites 11 and 12 are mated with their distribution unit, which once complete is transferred for integration with the Soyuz Fregat launcher.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe latest Galileo satellites are scheduled to liftoff at 11:51 GMT on 17 December (12:51 CET; 08:51 Kourou time) from Europe&rsquo;s Spaceport in French Guiana on a Soyuz rocket. They are expected to become operational, after initial in-orbit testing, next spring.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis is the sixth Galileo launch overall and the third this year, set to bring the number of satellites in space up to 12.<\/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-238428","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\/238428","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=238428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238429,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238428\/revisions\/238429"}],"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=238428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=238428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=238428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}