{"id":494385,"date":"2018-07-05T04:57:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-05T08:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=869bca76fb87d04549f87c7dc1988f60"},"modified":"2018-07-05T04:57:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T08:57:00","slug":"ela-4-construction-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=494385","title":{"rendered":"ELA-4 construction site"},"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\/ela-4_construction_site\/17581178-2-eng-GB\/ELA-4_construction_site_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 both the launch pad and, in the background, the steel frame of the mobile gantry.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nESA and European industry are currently developing a new-generation launcher: Ariane 6. This follows the decision taken at the ESA Council meeting at Ministerial level in December 2014, to maintain Europe\u2019s leadership in the fast-changing commercial launch service market while responding to the needs of European institutional missions.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe overarching aim of Ariane 6 is to provide guaranteed access to space for Europe at a competitive price without requiring public sector support for exploitation.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe targeted payload performance of Ariane 6 is over 4.5 t for polar\/Sun-synchronous orbit missions at 800 km altitude and the injection of two first-generation Galileo satellites. Ariane 6 can loft a payload mass of 4.5\u201310.5 tonnes in equivalent geostationary transfer orbit.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe exploitation cost of the Ariane 6 launch system is its key driver. Launch service costs will be halved, while maintaining reliability by reusing the trusted engines of Ariane 5. The first flight is scheduled for 2020.<\/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\/ela-4_construction_site\/17581178-2-eng-GB\/ELA-4_construction_site_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 both the launch pad and, in the background, the steel frame of the mobile gantry.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nESA and European industry are currently developing a new-generation launcher: Ariane 6. This follows the decision taken at the ESA Council meeting at Ministerial level in December 2014, to maintain Europe&rsquo;s leadership in the fast-changing commercial launch service market while responding to the needs of European institutional missions.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe overarching aim of Ariane 6 is to provide guaranteed access to space for Europe at a competitive price without requiring public sector support for exploitation.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe targeted payload performance of Ariane 6 is over 4.5 t for polar\/Sun-synchronous orbit missions at 800 km altitude and the injection of two first-generation Galileo satellites. Ariane 6 can loft a payload mass of 4.5&ndash;10.5 tonnes in equivalent geostationary transfer orbit.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe exploitation cost of the Ariane 6 launch system is its key driver. Launch service costs will be halved, while maintaining reliability by reusing the trusted engines of Ariane 5. The first flight is scheduled for 2020.<\/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-494385","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\/494385","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=494385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":494386,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494385\/revisions\/494386"}],"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=494385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=494385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=494385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}