{"id":243709,"date":"2016-11-21T08:42:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-21T12:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=a16bbb37a5ad63c9f277fe4ba9e5de39"},"modified":"2016-11-21T08:42:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-21T12:42:00","slug":"ministerial-2016-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=243709","title":{"rendered":"Ministerial 2016: Technology"},"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\/11\/ministerial_2016_technology\/16494796-5-eng-GB\/Ministerial_2016_Technology_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"95\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nDecisions about the future of the Europe\u2019s space programme will be made at the ESA Ministerial Council meeting on 1-2 December.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMinisters from the 22 ESA Member States and Canada will gather in Lucerne, Switzerland, to agree on future spending priorities.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAs well as funding a core programme, ESA members can subscribe to optional programmes. These range from future Astronomy &nbsp;missions to the development of new satellite communications systems.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBefore the meeting, each ESA directorate has drawn-up a list of priorities to be considered by ministers.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn this first in a series of reports, we hear from ESA\u2019s Technology Directorate in particular on their proposals for an asteroid mission.&nbsp;<\/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\/11\/ministerial_2016_technology\/16494796-5-eng-GB\/Ministerial_2016_Technology_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"95\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nDecisions about the future of the Europe&rsquo;s space programme will be made at the ESA Ministerial Council meeting on 1-2 December.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMinisters from the 22 ESA Member States and Canada will gather in Lucerne, Switzerland, to agree on future spending priorities.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAs well as funding a core programme, ESA members can subscribe to optional programmes. These range from future Astronomy &nbsp;missions to the development of new satellite communications systems.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBefore the meeting, each ESA directorate has drawn-up a list of priorities to be considered by ministers.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn this first in a series of reports, we hear from ESA&rsquo;s Technology Directorate in particular on their proposals for an asteroid mission.&nbsp;<\/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-243709","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\/243709","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=243709"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243721,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243709\/revisions\/243721"}],"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=243709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=243709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=243709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}