{"id":435318,"date":"2018-02-01T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=d94b7a0dae359ff53bf7d26f8ddbf017"},"modified":"2018-09-19T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T16:00:00","slug":"monitoring-solar-activity-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=435318","title":{"rendered":"ESA Lagrange mission animation"},"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\/2018\/01\/esa_lagrange_mission_animation\/17354157-5-eng-GB\/ESA_Lagrange_mission_animation_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThis animation shows the orbital location of ESA\u2019s future solar activity monitoring mission at L5, the 5th Lagrange point. This position provides a unique \u2018side\u2019 view of the Sun.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe agency is now studying design options for stationing a dedicated space weather mission at the L5 point, where gravity and the orbital motion of the spacecraft, the Sun and our planet combine to create a stable location. From here, the spacecraft would view solar features before they rotate into view of Earth.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe spacecraft&#8217;s instruments will provide near real-time data and are expected to build on those flown on earlier ESA and joint solar missions, such as SOHO, Stereo, Proba-2 and Solar Orbiter.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Operations\/Space_Situational_Awareness\/Where_no_mission_has_gone_before\">More information<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2018\/01\/esa_lagrange_mission_animation\/17354157-5-eng-GB\/ESA_Lagrange_mission_animation_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nThis animation shows the orbital location of ESA&rsquo;s future solar activity monitoring mission at L5, the 5th Lagrange point. This position provides a unique &lsquo;side&rsquo; view of the Sun.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe agency is now studying design options for stationing a dedicated space weather mission at the L5 point, where gravity and the orbital motion of the spacecraft, the Sun and our planet combine to create a stable location. From here, the spacecraft would view solar features before they rotate into view of Earth.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe spacecraft&#8217;s instruments will provide near real-time data and are expected to build on those flown on earlier ESA and joint solar missions, such as SOHO, Stereo, Proba-2 and Solar Orbiter.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Operations\/Space_Situational_Awareness\/Where_no_mission_has_gone_before\">More information<\/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-435318","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\/435318","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=435318"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":545198,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435318\/revisions\/545198"}],"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=435318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=435318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=435318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}