{"id":239249,"date":"2016-01-27T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=0c5e328b2b238ff6a892ef20ea0c896a"},"modified":"2016-01-27T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T23:00:00","slug":"lisa-pathfinder-prepares-for-liftoff-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=239249","title":{"rendered":"LISA Pathfinder prepares 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\/videos\/2016\/01\/lisa_pathfinder_prepares_for_liftoff\/15780502-1-eng-GB\/LISA_Pathfinder_prepares_for_liftoff_small.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThis timelapse video shows the preparations for LISA Pathfinder\u2019s launch at Europe\u2019s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The video spans three weeks, from 12 November 2015 until the launch on 3 December.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOver this period, the spacecraft was attached to the payload adaptor of the Vega launcher, encapsulated within the half-shells of the rocket fairing, transferred to the launcher assembly area, and installed on top of Vega inside the mobile gantry, which was withdrawn shortly before liftoff.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nLISA Pathfinder will test key technologies for space-based observation of gravitational waves \u2013 ripples in the fabric of spacetime that are predicted by Albert Einstein\u2019s general theory of relativity.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nCredit: ESA\u2013S. Corvaja, 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2016\/01\/lisa_pathfinder_prepares_for_liftoff\/15780502-1-eng-GB\/LISA_Pathfinder_prepares_for_liftoff_small.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nThis timelapse video shows the preparations for LISA Pathfinder&rsquo;s launch at Europe&rsquo;s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The video spans three weeks, from 12 November 2015 until the launch on 3 December.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOver this period, the spacecraft was attached to the payload adaptor of the Vega launcher, encapsulated within the half-shells of the rocket fairing, transferred to the launcher assembly area, and installed on top of Vega inside the mobile gantry, which was withdrawn shortly before liftoff.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nLISA Pathfinder will test key technologies for space-based observation of gravitational waves &ndash; ripples in the fabric of spacetime that are predicted by Albert Einstein&rsquo;s general theory of relativity.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nCredit: ESA&ndash;S. Corvaja, 2015<\/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-239249","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\/239249","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=239249"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239297,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239249\/revisions\/239297"}],"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=239249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=239249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=239249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}