{"id":239346,"date":"2016-01-28T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-28T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=b479e3c8777cf7165bc07d82d5d38c12"},"modified":"2016-01-28T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T23:00:00","slug":"edrs-a-launch-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=239346","title":{"rendered":"EDRS-A launch highlights"},"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\/edrs-a_launch_highlights\/15782959-8-eng-GB\/EDRS-A_launch_highlights_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"113\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThe first laser node of the European Data Relay System was launched from Baikonur, Kazakhstan atop a Proton rocket on 29 January at 22:20 GMT.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nDubbed the \u2018SpaceDataHighway\u2019, EDRS will uniquely provide near-realtime Big Data relay services using cutting-edge laser technology. It will dramatically improve access to time-critical data, aiding disaster response by emergency services and maritime surveillance.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe first node, EDRS-A, was launched as a hosted payload on Eutelsat-9B, a commercial telecom satellite operated by Eutelsat. EDRS is a public\u2013private partnership between ESA and Airbus Defence and Space.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWatch&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Videos\/2016\/01\/Launch_of_EDRS-A_the_first_SpaceDataHighway_laser_node\" title=\"Launch of EDRS-A, the first SpaceDataHighway laser node\">Launch of EDRS-A, the first SpaceDataHighway laser node<\/a>.<\/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\/edrs-a_launch_highlights\/15782959-8-eng-GB\/EDRS-A_launch_highlights_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"113\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nThe first laser node of the European Data Relay System was launched from Baikonur, Kazakhstan atop a Proton rocket on 29 January at 22:20 GMT.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nDubbed the &lsquo;SpaceDataHighway&rsquo;, EDRS will uniquely provide near-realtime Big Data relay services using cutting-edge laser technology. It will dramatically improve access to time-critical data, aiding disaster response by emergency services and maritime surveillance.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe first node, EDRS-A, was launched as a hosted payload on Eutelsat-9B, a commercial telecom satellite operated by Eutelsat. EDRS is a public&ndash;private partnership between ESA and Airbus Defence and Space.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWatch&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Videos\/2016\/01\/Launch_of_EDRS-A_the_first_SpaceDataHighway_laser_node\" title=\"Launch of EDRS-A, the first SpaceDataHighway laser node\">Launch of EDRS-A, the first SpaceDataHighway laser node<\/a>.<\/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-239346","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\/239346","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=239346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239347,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239346\/revisions\/239347"}],"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=239346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=239346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=239346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}