{"id":547493,"date":"2018-11-15T09:21:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T13:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=2e977e4a43fb8326fcd714676e27ea91"},"modified":"2018-11-15T09:21:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T13:21:00","slug":"haps-missions-to-the-edge-of-space-to-watch-over-earth-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=547493","title":{"rendered":"HAPS \u2013 missions to the edge of space to watch over Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2017\/11\/lighter-than-air_stratobus\/17271727-1-eng-GB\/Lighter-than-air_Stratobus_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nIs it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it\u2019s a High-Altitude Pseudo-Satellite (HAPS) \u2014 an uncrewed airship, plane or balloon watching over Earth from the stratosphere. Operating like satellites but from closer to Earth, HAPS are the \u2018missing link\u2019 between drones flying close to Earth\u2019s surface and satellites orbiting in space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2017\/11\/lighter-than-air_stratobus\/17271727-1-eng-GB\/Lighter-than-air_Stratobus_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nIs it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it&rsquo;s a High-Altitude Pseudo-Satellite (HAPS) &mdash; an uncrewed airship, plane or balloon watching over Earth from the stratosphere. Operating like satellites but from closer to Earth, HAPS are the &lsquo;missing link&rsquo; between drones flying close to Earth&rsquo;s surface and satellites orbiting in space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ESA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547493","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\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=547493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":547494,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547493\/revisions\/547494"}],"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=547493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=547493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=547493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}