{"id":520334,"date":"2018-09-07T03:03:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T07:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=3ad8251186246ca83c02dd7b03742ba9"},"modified":"2018-09-07T03:03:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T07:03:00","slug":"bepicolombo-ministack-on-the-move-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=520334","title":{"rendered":"BepiColombo ministack on the move"},"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\/09\/bepicolombo_ministack_on_the_move5\/17676757-1-eng-GB\/BepiColombo_ministack_on_the_move_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThe BepiColombo &#8216;ministack&#8217;, comprising JAXA&#8217;s Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (top) and ESA&#8217;s Mercury Planetary Orbiter (bottom), transferring between facilities at Europe&#8217;s Spaceport in Kourou. The modules spent the first part of the launch campaign in the &#8216;processing area&#8217; before moving to the &#8216;fueling integration area&#8217; where the chemical propulsion fueling activities will take place.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn this view the MPO&#8217;s radiator side is visible \u2013 the radiator &#8216;fins&#8217; have now been installed. The radiator is designed to reflect heat directionally, allowing the spacecraft to fly at low altitude over the hot surface of planet Mercury.<\/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\/09\/bepicolombo_ministack_on_the_move5\/17676757-1-eng-GB\/BepiColombo_ministack_on_the_move_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nThe BepiColombo &#8216;ministack&#8217;, comprising JAXA&#8217;s Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (top) and ESA&#8217;s Mercury Planetary Orbiter (bottom), transferring between facilities at Europe&#8217;s Spaceport in Kourou. The modules spent the first part of the launch campaign in the &#8216;processing area&#8217; before moving to the &#8216;fueling integration area&#8217; where the chemical propulsion fueling activities will take place.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn this view the MPO&#8217;s radiator side is visible &ndash; the radiator &#8216;fins&#8217; have now been installed. The radiator is designed to reflect heat directionally, allowing the spacecraft to fly at low altitude over the hot surface of planet Mercury.<\/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-520334","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\/520334","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=520334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":520335,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520334\/revisions\/520335"}],"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=520334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=520334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=520334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}