{"id":630154,"date":"2019-09-10T08:27:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T12:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=630154"},"modified":"2019-09-10T08:27:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T12:27:00","slug":"tracking-satellites-from-the-arctic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=630154","title":{"rendered":"Tracking satellites from the Arctic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Tracking_satellites_from_the_Arctic_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"95\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nMany of the satellites that gather information on the health of our planet pass over the polar regions pass above the North and South Poles. Satellite ground stations located in these remote areas are best positioned to collect the data and talk to the missions passing above them. This video presents the most northern ground station ESA is using \u2013 SvalSat, located within the Arctic Circle \u2013 where contact is made with many of ESA\u2019s Earth observation missions. The Svalsat station contributes to ESA&#8217;s global tracking station network, Estrack.\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\/09\/Tracking_satellites_from_the_Arctic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Tracking satellites from the Arctic<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Top Multimedia&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of the satellites that gather information on the health of our planet pass over the polar regions pass above the North and South Poles. Satellite ground stations located in&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":630155,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-630154","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\/630154","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=630154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/630155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=630154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=630154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=630154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}