{"id":494383,"date":"2018-07-05T04:57:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-05T08:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=72bcc97e334360cfeb907c885168e71f"},"modified":"2018-07-05T04:57:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T08:57:00","slug":"ariane-6-mobile-gantry-under-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=494383","title":{"rendered":"Ariane 6 mobile gantry under construction"},"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\/ariane_6_mobile_gantry_under_construction\/17581104-1-eng-GB\/Ariane_6_mobile_gantry_under_construction_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThe ELA-4 launch zone at Europe\u2019s Spaceport in French Guiana is currently undergoing reconstruction in preparation for Europe\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Space_Transportation\/Launch_vehicles\/Ariane_6\">Ariane 6<\/a> launch vehicle.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn this image you see the construction of the mobile gantry that will house and protect Ariane 6 before launch.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWork platforms will enable engineers to access the vehicle levels to vertically position Ariane 6\u2019s central core directly on the launch table, add two or four boosters depending on the launch configuration, and integrate the fairing that houses the payload.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nA mobile gantry gives engineers better access to the launcher, allowing them to make adjustments without moving the rocket back to the assembly&nbsp;building \u2013 unlike Ariane 5, which is moved on a table to the pad on launch day.<\/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\/ariane_6_mobile_gantry_under_construction\/17581104-1-eng-GB\/Ariane_6_mobile_gantry_under_construction_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nThe ELA-4 launch zone at Europe&rsquo;s Spaceport in French Guiana is currently undergoing reconstruction in preparation for Europe&rsquo;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Space_Transportation\/Launch_vehicles\/Ariane_6\">Ariane 6<\/a> launch vehicle.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn this image you see the construction of the mobile gantry that will house and protect Ariane 6 before launch.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWork platforms will enable engineers to access the vehicle levels to vertically position Ariane 6&rsquo;s central core directly on the launch table, add two or four boosters depending on the launch configuration, and integrate the fairing that houses the payload.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nA mobile gantry gives engineers better access to the launcher, allowing them to make adjustments without moving the rocket back to the assembly&nbsp;building &ndash; unlike Ariane 5, which is moved on a table to the pad on launch day.<\/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-494383","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\/494383","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=494383"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":495105,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494383\/revisions\/495105"}],"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=494383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=494383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=494383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}