{"id":468,"date":"2003-07-24T21:04:50","date_gmt":"2003-07-25T02:04:50","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2003-07-24T21:04:50","modified_gmt":"2003-07-25T02:04:50","slug":"mission-update-arianespace-flight-162","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=468","title":{"rendered":"Mission Update: Arianespace Flight 162"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The S5 satellite preparation facility at the Spaceport in French Guiana is busy with activity as two of the three payloads for Flight 162 undergo their pre-launch preparations. <\/p>\n<p>The European Space Agency\u2019s SMART-1 lunar spacecraft has been mated to its interface adapter, while INSAT-3E for the Indian Space Research Organisation underwent a solar panel deployment test. <\/p>\n<p>All is on schedule for a late August liftoff of Flight 162&#8217;s Ariane 5 Generic launcher, which will carry SMART-1 and INSAT-3E, along with e-BIRD for Europe&#8217;s Eutelsat. <\/p>\n<p>For the latest photos of activity at the Spaceport, see our Mission Update on the Arianespace Web site: <br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arianespace.com\"   target=\"_blank\"  ><br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.arianespace.com  <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The S5 satellite preparation facility at the Spaceport in French Guiana is busy with activity as two of the three payloads for Flight 162 undergo their pre-launch preparations. The European&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Arianespace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468","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=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/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=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}