{"id":238817,"date":"2015-12-21T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=ba54cb918bd50bc94b8897f61dd554a5"},"modified":"2015-12-21T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-21T23:00:00","slug":"highlights-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=238817","title":{"rendered":"Highlights 2015"},"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\/2015\/12\/highlights_2015\/15741241-2-eng-GB\/Highlights_2015_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n2015 began and ended with two pioneering missions: IXV, the Intermediate Experimental Vehicle, proving Europe&#8217;s ability to return autonomously from space, and LISA Pathfinder, which set out in December to test the technologies needed to detect&nbsp;gravitational waves and, with them, a new way to look at our Universe! But a lot has happened in between&#8230; More European astronauts have visited space and more satellites are beefing up Galileo and ESA&#8217;s Earth Observation programme!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2015 began and ended with two pioneering missions: IXV, the Intermediate Experimental Vehicle, proving Europe&#8217;s ability to return autonomously from space, and LISA Pathfinder, which set out in December to test the technologies needed to det&#8230;<\/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-238817","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\/238817","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=238817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238818,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238817\/revisions\/238818"}],"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=238817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=238817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=238817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}