{"id":464395,"date":"2018-04-13T06:18:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T10:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=ece9293008558d4967964b9ea194ee0f"},"modified":"2018-04-13T06:18:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-13T10:18:00","slug":"fuelling-sentinel-3b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=464395","title":{"rendered":"Fuelling Sentinel-3B"},"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\/2018\/04\/fuelling_sentinel-3b\/17451064-1-eng-GB\/Fuelling_Sentinel-3B_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"95\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThe team of propulsion experts has spent two days carrying out the tricky task of fuelling the Copernicus Sentinel-3B satellite with 130 kg of hydrazine and pressurising the tank for its life in orbit.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSince hydrazine is extremely toxic, only specialists remained in the cleanroom for the duration. A doctor and security staff waited nearby with an ambulance and fire engine ready to respond to any problems.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe satellite is scheduled for liftoff on 25 April from Russia\u2019s Plesetsk Cosmodrome at 17:57 GMT (19:57 CEST).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2018\/04\/fuelling_sentinel-3b\/17451064-1-eng-GB\/Fuelling_Sentinel-3B_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"95\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nThe team of propulsion experts has spent two days carrying out the tricky task of fuelling the Copernicus Sentinel-3B satellite with 130 kg of hydrazine and pressurising the tank for its life in orbit.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSince hydrazine is extremely toxic, only specialists remained in the cleanroom for the duration. A doctor and security staff waited nearby with an ambulance and fire engine ready to respond to any problems.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe satellite is scheduled for liftoff on 25 April from Russia&rsquo;s Plesetsk Cosmodrome at 17:57 GMT (19:57 CEST).<\/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-464395","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\/464395","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=464395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":464396,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464395\/revisions\/464396"}],"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=464395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=464395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=464395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}