{"id":534485,"date":"2018-07-26T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=59d78e1bfb1349305f18bc926b27f433"},"modified":"2018-07-26T08:30:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T12:30:00","slug":"bepicolombos-pre-launch-health-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=534485","title":{"rendered":"BepiColombo&#8217;s Pre-launch health check"},"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\/bepicolombo_s_pre-launch_health_check\/17585258-2-eng-GB\/BepiColombo_s_Pre-launch_health_check_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThe BepiColombo spacecraft, Europe\u2019s first mission to Mercury, is keeping cool before launch in the equatorial heat of ESA\u2019s spaceport in French Guiana.&nbsp;After arriving in May from ESA\u2019s technical Centre in The Netherlands, the spacecraft has been undergoing a series of ongoing pre-launch health checks. These include mechanical, electrical and propulsion subsystems checks, testing the deployment of its solar panels, and covering the spacecraft in a multi-layered insulation blanket to protection against solar and planetary radiation.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe A and B-roll includes interviews with Hajime Hayakawa, BepiColombo Project Manager, JAXA (English and Japanese); Ulrich Reininghaus, Bepicolombo Project Manager, ESA (English and German); Bernard Guillaume, BepiColombo Assembly Integration and Verification, ESA (French and Dutch, B-roll only).<\/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\/bepicolombo_s_pre-launch_health_check\/17585258-2-eng-GB\/BepiColombo_s_Pre-launch_health_check_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nThe BepiColombo spacecraft, Europe&rsquo;s first mission to Mercury, is keeping cool before launch in the equatorial heat of ESA&rsquo;s spaceport in French Guiana.&nbsp;After arriving in May from ESA&rsquo;s technical Centre in The Netherlands, the spacecraft has been undergoing a series of ongoing pre-launch health checks. These include mechanical, electrical and propulsion subsystems checks, testing the deployment of its solar panels, and covering the spacecraft in a multi-layered insulation blanket to protection against solar and planetary radiation.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe A and B-roll includes interviews with Hajime Hayakawa, BepiColombo Project Manager, JAXA (English and Japanese); Ulrich Reininghaus, Bepicolombo Project Manager, ESA (English and German); Bernard Guillaume, BepiColombo Assembly Integration and Verification, ESA (French and Dutch, B-roll only).<\/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-534485","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\/534485","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=534485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":534486,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534485\/revisions\/534486"}],"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=534485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=534485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=534485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}