{"id":243808,"date":"2016-11-23T05:42:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T09:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=d0dcf6907db1dda647f40d1a02900336"},"modified":"2016-11-23T05:42:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-23T09:42:00","slug":"galileo-teamwork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=243808","title":{"rendered":"Galileo teamwork"},"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\/11\/galileo_teamwork\/16525895-1-eng-GB\/Galileo_teamwork_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nOn 17 November, an Ariane 5 rocket launched four new Galileo satellites, accelerating deployment of the new satellite navigation system.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nLifting off from Europe\u2019s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, it carried Galileo satellites 15\u201318. The first pair was released 3 hours 36 minutes later, while the second separated 20 minutes later at the target altitude.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAt the Toulouse space centre of France\u2019s CNES space agency, a joint ESA\u2013CNES team is now working around the clock to shepherd the four through the critical early orbits, lasting nine days for one pair and 13 days for the other.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSince 2011, the joint team has conducted the Galileo initial flight operations alternately from ESA\u2019s centre in Darmstadt, Germany, and the CNES centre in Toulouse.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis image highlights teamwork during intensive pre-launch training on 10 November.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<b>More details<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSee <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Operations\/Flying_the_fantastic_four\" title=\"Flying the fantastic four\" >Flying the fantastic four&nbsp;<\/a><\/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\/11\/galileo_teamwork\/16525895-1-eng-GB\/Galileo_teamwork_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nOn 17 November, an Ariane 5 rocket launched four new Galileo satellites, accelerating deployment of the new satellite navigation system.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nLifting off from Europe&rsquo;s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, it carried Galileo satellites 15&ndash;18. The first pair was released 3 hours 36 minutes later, while the second separated 20 minutes later at the target altitude.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAt the Toulouse space centre of France&rsquo;s CNES space agency, a joint ESA&ndash;CNES team is now working around the clock to shepherd the four through the critical early orbits, lasting nine days for one pair and 13 days for the other.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSince 2011, the joint team has conducted the Galileo initial flight operations alternately from ESA&rsquo;s centre in Darmstadt, Germany, and the CNES centre in Toulouse.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis image highlights teamwork during intensive pre-launch training on 10 November.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<b>More details<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSee <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Operations\/Flying_the_fantastic_four\" title=\"Flying the fantastic four\" target=\"_blank\">Flying the fantastic four&nbsp;<\/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-243808","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\/243808","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=243808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243809,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243808\/revisions\/243809"}],"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=243808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=243808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=243808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}