{"id":501321,"date":"2018-07-24T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=283f6ee4efe05ce3d5a22f47437b29f5"},"modified":"2018-07-24T07:30:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-24T11:30:00","slug":"completing-the-constellation-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=501321","title":{"rendered":"Completing the constellation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2018\/07\/completing_the_constellation\/17585320-5-eng-GB\/Completing_the_constellation_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nOn 25 July 4 Europe\u2019s next four Galileo satellites will be launched into orbit by Ariane 5 from Europe\u2019s Spaceport in French Guiana.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWith this launch the Galileo constellation will reach 26 satellites in space, completing the constellation in overall numbers although further launches are needed to place back-up satellites in orbit.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe launch comes at a time when Galileo is into its second year of Initial Operations, with a signal that is better than expected and that is now usable in all new mobile phones.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis video looks at Galileo\u2019s story so far and the way forward, interviewing Paul Verhoef, ESA Director of Navigation, and Valter Alpe, Galileo\u2019s Satellite Production and Launch Campaign Manager.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2018\/07\/completing_the_constellation\/17585320-5-eng-GB\/Completing_the_constellation_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nOn 25 July 4 Europe&rsquo;s next four Galileo satellites will be launched into orbit by Ariane 5 from Europe&rsquo;s Spaceport in French Guiana.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWith this launch the Galileo constellation will reach 26 satellites in space, completing the constellation in overall numbers although further launches are needed to place back-up satellites in orbit.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe launch comes at a time when Galileo is into its second year of Initial Operations, with a signal that is better than expected and that is now usable in all new mobile phones.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis video looks at Galileo&rsquo;s story so far and the way forward, interviewing Paul Verhoef, ESA Director of Navigation, and Valter Alpe, Galileo&rsquo;s Satellite Production and Launch Campaign Manager.<\/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-501321","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\/501321","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=501321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":501322,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501321\/revisions\/501322"}],"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=501321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=501321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=501321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}