{"id":241166,"date":"2016-05-06T03:17:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-06T07:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=bf10dc4f8e44e28e955f8cc96e0b12b7"},"modified":"2016-05-06T03:17:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-06T07:17:00","slug":"galileo-satellites-fuelled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=241166","title":{"rendered":"Galileo satellites fuelled"},"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\/2016\/05\/galileo_satellites_fuelled\/15975774-1-eng-GB\/Galileo_satellites_fuelled_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThe 13th and 14th Galileo satellites are fuelled at Europe&#8217;s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nTo be launched by Soyuz on 24 May, this pair will join the 12 Galileos already in orbit. A second launch is planned for the autumn, with four satellites carried aloft on a customised Ariane 5 for the first time.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThat will mean 18 Galileo satellites in orbit by the end of this year.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nGalileo is the EU\u2019s own global satellite navigation system, consisting of 30 satellites and their ground infrastructure.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe definition, development and in-orbit validation phases were carried out by ESA, and co-funded by ESA and the European Commission. This phase created a mini constellation of four satellites and a reduced ground segment set up to validate the overall concept.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Full Operational Capability phase is fully funded by the EU and managed by the Commission. The Commission and ESA have signed a delegation agreement by which ESA acts as design and procurement agent on behalf of the Commission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2016\/05\/galileo_satellites_fuelled\/15975774-1-eng-GB\/Galileo_satellites_fuelled_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nThe 13th and 14th Galileo satellites are fuelled at Europe&#8217;s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nTo be launched by Soyuz on 24 May, this pair will join the 12 Galileos already in orbit. A second launch is planned for the autumn, with four satellites carried aloft on a customised Ariane 5 for the first time.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThat will mean 18 Galileo satellites in orbit by the end of this year.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nGalileo is the EU&rsquo;s own global satellite navigation system, consisting of 30 satellites and their ground infrastructure.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe definition, development and in-orbit validation phases were carried out by ESA, and co-funded by ESA and the European Commission. This phase created a mini constellation of four satellites and a reduced ground segment set up to validate the overall concept.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Full Operational Capability phase is fully funded by the EU and managed by the Commission. The Commission and ESA have signed a delegation agreement by which ESA acts as design and procurement agent on behalf of the Commission.<\/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-241166","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\/241166","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=241166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241167,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241166\/revisions\/241167"}],"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=241166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=241166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=241166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}