{"id":304510,"date":"2016-11-21T08:44:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-21T12:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=d455eca7926913c6dee837aa7d6a2407"},"modified":"2016-11-21T08:44:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-21T12:44:00","slug":"ministerial-2016-operations-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=304510","title":{"rendered":"Ministerial 2016: Operations"},"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_operations\/16494857-3-eng-GB\/Ministerial_2016_Operations_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;\">\nMinisters from the 22 ESA member states and Canada will gather in Lucerne, Switzerland on 1-2 December to discuss future spending priorities for the ESA space programme.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;\">\nESA members fund a core programme of space activities but can also subscribe to optional programmes.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;\">\nBefore the meeting, each ESA directorate has drawn-up a list of priorities to be considered by ministers. In this second of a series of reports, we hear from ESA\u2019s Operations Directorate on its proposals for the future, including plans to tackle space debris and the threat to Earth of Near Earth Objects.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: normal;\">\nThis story includes an interview&nbsp; in English with Ralph Densing, Director of Operations, ESA.<\/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_operations\/16494857-3-eng-GB\/Ministerial_2016_Operations_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nMinisters from the 22 ESA member states and Canada will gather in Lucerne, Switzerland on 1-2 December to discuss future spending priorities for the ESA space programme.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nESA members fund a core programme of space activities but can also subscribe to optional programmes.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBefore the meeting, each ESA directorate has drawn-up a list of priorities to be considered by ministers. In this second of a series of reports, we hear from ESA&rsquo;s Operations Directorate on its proposals for the future, including plans to tackle space debris and the threat to Earth of Near Earth Objects.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis story includes an interview&nbsp; in English with Ralph Densing, Director of Operations, ESA.<\/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-304510","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\/304510","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=304510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304511,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304510\/revisions\/304511"}],"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=304510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=304510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=304510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}