{"id":619459,"date":"2019-06-05T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=619459"},"modified":"2019-06-05T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-05T08:00:00","slug":"time-for-answers-space-rider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=619459","title":{"rendered":"Time for answers: Space Rider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Time_for_answers_Space_Rider_small-2.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nDaniel Neuenschwander, ESA Director of Space Transportation, answers questions on Space Rider.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Space_Transportation\/Space_Rider\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Space Rider<\/a> is a reusable lifting body is now in development. Launched unmanned on Vega-C, it will be able to stay in low-Earth orbit for more than two months, providing a platform for a range of experiments and demonstrations in microgravity. After each mission it will return to Earth to land on ground to return its cargo before minimal refurbishment for its next mission.\u00a0Find out how Europe aims for reentry capability, how it works, and what opportunities Space Rider will deliver.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Videos\/2019\/06\/Time_for_answers_Space_Rider\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Time for answers: Space Rider<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Top Multimedia&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Neuenschwander, ESA Director of Space Transportation, answers questions on Space Rider. Space Rider is a reusable lifting body is now in development. Launched unmanned on Vega-C, it will be&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":619460,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-619459","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\/619459","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=619459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/619460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=619459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=619459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=619459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}