{"id":494377,"date":"2018-07-05T06:25:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-05T10:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=052fd727af5c1e35016522137413bb04"},"modified":"2018-07-05T06:25:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T10:25:00","slug":"mobile-gantry-for-vega-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=494377","title":{"rendered":"Mobile gantry for Vega-C"},"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\/07\/mobile_gantry_for_vega-c4\/17582597-2-eng-GB\/Mobile_gantry_for_Vega-C_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nVega&#8217;s mobile gantry is being modified to accommodate the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Space_Transportation\/Launch_vehicles\/Vega-C\"><u>Vega-C<\/u><\/a> launch vehicle requiring a more powerful crane, new pallets, and modified fluid services. The Vega launch zone (ELV), comprises a permanent infrastructure (the bunker) and a mobile building (the gantry).\n<\/p>\n<p>\nVega-C is expected to debut in mid-2019, increasing performance from Vega\u2019s current 1.5 t to about 2.2 t in a reference 700 km polar orbit, covering identified European institutional users\u2019 mission needs, with no increase in launch service and operating costs.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe participating States in this development are: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.<\/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\/07\/mobile_gantry_for_vega-c4\/17582597-2-eng-GB\/Mobile_gantry_for_Vega-C_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nVega&#8217;s mobile gantry is being modified to accommodate the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Space_Transportation\/Launch_vehicles\/Vega-C\"><u>Vega-C<\/u><\/a> launch vehicle requiring a more powerful crane, new pallets, and modified fluid services. The Vega launch zone (ELV), comprises a permanent infrastructure (the bunker) and a mobile building (the gantry).\n<\/p>\n<p>\nVega-C is expected to debut in mid-2019, increasing performance from Vega&rsquo;s current 1.5 t to about 2.2 t in a reference 700 km polar orbit, covering identified European institutional users&rsquo; mission needs, with no increase in launch service and operating costs.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe participating States in this development are: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.<\/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-494377","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\/494377","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=494377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":494378,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494377\/revisions\/494378"}],"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=494377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=494377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=494377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}