{"id":242135,"date":"2016-07-13T10:28:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T14:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=f9718506383679b284842f0054812f63"},"modified":"2016-07-13T10:28:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-13T14:28:00","slug":"highlights-mid-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=242135","title":{"rendered":"Highlights mid-2016"},"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\/07\/highlights_mid-2016\/16049446-2-eng-GB\/Highlights_mid-2016_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nA look back at the highlights of these past months&nbsp;for Europe in Space.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n2015 indeed was a very busy year with many missions and achievements for ESA,&nbsp;and 2016 is also&nbsp;busy and exciting, a &quot;Martian year&quot; in particular with the&nbsp;ExoMars launch last&nbsp;March and&nbsp;with the landing of its descent module in&nbsp;October on the surface of the Red Planet.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nNext September will see&nbsp;the end of the Rosetta quest around its comet. And all the other areas from Human spaceflight to Earth Observation, Navigation and&nbsp;Telecom are on the agenda.<\/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\/07\/highlights_mid-2016\/16049446-2-eng-GB\/Highlights_mid-2016_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nA look back at the highlights of these past months&nbsp;for Europe in Space.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n2015 indeed was a very busy year with many missions and achievements for ESA,&nbsp;and 2016 is also&nbsp;busy and exciting, a &#8220;Martian year&#8221; in particular with the&nbsp;ExoMars launch last&nbsp;March and&nbsp;with the landing of its descent module in&nbsp;October on the surface of the Red Planet.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nNext September will see&nbsp;the end of the Rosetta quest around its comet. And all the other areas from Human spaceflight to Earth Observation, Navigation and&nbsp;Telecom are on the agenda.<\/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-242135","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\/242135","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=242135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242136,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242135\/revisions\/242136"}],"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=242135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=242135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=242135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}