{"id":618359,"date":"2019-05-24T07:47:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T11:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=618359"},"modified":"2019-05-24T07:47:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T11:47:00","slug":"esa-renews-focus-on-canary-islands-for-laser-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=618359","title":{"rendered":"ESA renews focus on Canary Islands for laser operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/ESA_s_Optical_Ground_Station_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"106\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nTheir winning combination of high altitudes and clear skies make Spain\u2019s Canary Islands one of the world&#8217;s best locations for astronomy. Now ESA has signed an agreement with the organisation running the Islands\u2019 observatories to expand their role in laser-based communication for space missions, as well as space debris monitoring and removal.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Space_Engineering_Technology\/ESA_renews_focus_on_Canary_Islands_for_laser_operations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ESA renews focus on Canary Islands for laser operations<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space Engineering &amp; Technology&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Their winning combination of high altitudes and clear skies make Spain\u2019s Canary Islands one of the world&#8217;s best locations for astronomy. Now ESA has signed an agreement with the organisation&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":618360,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-618359","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\/618359","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=618359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/618360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=618359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=618359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=618359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}