{"id":243250,"date":"2016-10-18T10:40:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T14:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=35ba8250bf9e18c1a044bfeb193af0f3"},"modified":"2016-10-18T10:40:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T14:40:00","slug":"tim-peake-opens-electric-propulsion-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=243250","title":{"rendered":"Tim Peake opens electric propulsion centre"},"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\/10\/tim_peake_opens_electric_propulsion_centre3\/16186561-2-eng-GB\/Tim_Peake_opens_electric_propulsion_centre_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nOn 18 October 2016, Thales UK opened its Electric Propulsion Integration Centre in Belfast, Northern Ireland, the first of its kind in the UK. It will expand Europe\u2019s all-electric satellite capability as part of ESA\u2019s Neosat programme.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nESA astronaut Tim Peake cut the ribbon at the inauguration event in during his postflight tour of the UK.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nPictured (left to right):&nbsp; Magali Vaissiere, ESA Director of Telecommunications and Integrated Applications, Rt Hon. Arlene Foster, Northern Ireland\u2019s First Minister, Philip McBride, General Manager at Thales Belfast,&nbsp;ESA astronaut Tim Peake, Minister Simon Hamilton, Minister for the Economy, Northern Ireland.<\/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\/10\/tim_peake_opens_electric_propulsion_centre3\/16186561-2-eng-GB\/Tim_Peake_opens_electric_propulsion_centre_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nOn 18 October 2016, Thales UK opened its Electric Propulsion Integration Centre in Belfast, Northern Ireland, the first of its kind in the UK. It will expand Europe&rsquo;s all-electric satellite capability as part of ESA&rsquo;s Neosat programme.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nESA astronaut Tim Peake cut the ribbon at the inauguration event in during his postflight tour of the UK.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nPictured (left to right):&nbsp; Magali Vaissiere, ESA Director of Telecommunications and Integrated Applications, Rt Hon. Arlene Foster, Northern Ireland&rsquo;s First Minister, Philip McBride, General Manager at Thales Belfast,&nbsp;ESA astronaut Tim Peake, Minister Simon Hamilton, Minister for the Economy, Northern Ireland.<\/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-243250","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\/243250","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=243250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243251,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243250\/revisions\/243251"}],"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=243250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=243250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=243250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}