{"id":516526,"date":"2018-09-04T04:15:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T08:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=647d5dc2e9a2df4440184a6f097dd0da"},"modified":"2018-09-04T04:15:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T08:15:00","slug":"fripon-network-watching-the-skies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=516526","title":{"rendered":"FRIPON network: watching the skies"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nMounted at the highest point of ESA\u2019s ESTEC technical centre in the Netherlands, a fisheye camera keeps a constant watch on the sky, looking out for bright fireballs \u2013 very bright meteors burning up in the atmosphere.\n<\/p>\n

\nThis is one of a network of more than a hundred specially-designed cameras stretching across Europe, called the Fireball Recovery and Planetary Inter Observation Network, FRIPON<\/a>. This network gives scientists the ability to determine the trajectory of fireballs and calculate where they fall to guide recovery of any surviving debris.\n<\/p>\n

\nTo learn more about the expanding FRIPON network \u2013 and visit ESTEC\u2019s neighbouring FRIPON camera at the Cyclops Observatory<\/a> \u2013 watch this video, originally created as part of ESA\u2019s joint, live webcast with ESO<\/a> for Asteroid Day 2018<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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\nMounted at the highest point of ESA’s ESTEC technical centre in the Netherlands, a fisheye camera keeps a constant watch on the sky, looking out for bright fireballs – very bright meteors burning up in the atmosphere.\n<\/p>\n

\nThis is one of a network of more than a hundred specially-designed cameras stretching across Europe, called the Fireball Recovery and Planetary Inter Observation Network, FRIPON<\/a>. This network gives scientists the ability to determine the trajectory of fireballs and calculate where they fall to guide recovery of any surviving debris.\n<\/p>\n

\nTo learn more about the expanding FRIPON network – and visit ESTEC’s neighbouring FRIPON camera at the Cyclops Observatory<\/a> – watch this video, originally created as part of ESA’s joint, live webcast with ESO<\/a> for Asteroid Day 2018<\/a>.<\/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-516526","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\/516526","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=516526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":516527,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516526\/revisions\/516527"}],"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=516526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=516526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=516526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}