{"id":354,"date":"2003-05-23T20:27:06","date_gmt":"2003-05-24T01:27:06","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2003-05-23T20:27:06","modified_gmt":"2003-05-24T01:27:06","slug":"mars-express-coverge-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=354","title":{"rendered":"Mars Express Coverge Details"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 2 June at 19:45 CEST (Central European Summer Time, 17.45 GMT\/UTC) ESA&#8217;s Mars Express satellite will be launched by a Soyuz launcher from Baikonur, Kazakhstan.<\/p>\n<p>Europe\u2019s first mission to the Red Planet will reach its target in December, after a six-month journey.  Mars Express will help scientists answer questions about the Martian landscape, atmosphere and the origin of life that remain open, although a wealth of information is already available.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe ESA TV Service will provide live televised coverage of the launch and initial orbital operations with English commentary, between 19:15 and 22:00 CEST.<\/p>\n<p>Satellite: Astra 2C at 19 degrees East<br \/>\nReception frequency: 10832 MHz<br \/>\nPolarisation: Horizontal<br \/>\nSymbol rate: 22 Msymb\/s<br \/>\nFEC: 5\/6<br \/>\nService ID: 61950<br \/>\nService name: ESA<br \/>\nTXT: none<\/p>\n<p>Details of the transmission schedule and satellite details for the various pre-launch Video News Releases can be found on <a href=\"http:\/\/television.esa.int\"   target=\"_blank\"  >http:\/\/television.esa.int  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The launch can also be followed live on the internet at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/marsexpresslaunch\"   target=\"_blank\"  >http:\/\/www.esa.int\/marsexpresslaunch  <\/a> starting at 19:15 hrs. Here you can also find the launch diary, news, press releases, videos, images and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 2 June at 19:45 CEST (Central European Summer Time, 17.45 GMT\/UTC) ESA&#8217;s Mars Express satellite will be launched by a Soyuz launcher from Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Europe\u2019s first mission to&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ESA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"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=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}