{"id":632131,"date":"2019-09-24T01:03:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T05:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=632131"},"modified":"2019-09-24T01:03:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T05:03:00","slug":"smooth-operators-students-complete-ladybird-guide-to-spacecraft-operations-training-course-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=632131","title":{"rendered":"Smooth operators: students complete Ladybird Guide to Spacecraft Operations Training Course 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Learning_valuable_lessons_from_expert_tutors_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"113\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nSpacecraft are complex machines requiring dedicated staff to maintain their operations over the entire duration of a mission. To help prepare the next generation of spacecraft operators,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Education\/ESA_Academy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ESA Academy<\/a>\u00a0has run the Ladybird Guide to Spacecraft Operations Training Course 2019. From 3 \u2013 6 September, 30 Bachelor, Master, and PhD students with a science or engineering background, from 13 different\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Education\/ESA_Member_States_Canada_and_Slovenia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ESA Member States and Canada<\/a>, attended at ESA Academy\u2019s Training and Learning Facility,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Education\/ESA_Academy\/About_the_training_and_learning_facility\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ESEC-Galaxia<\/a>, Belgium. They were joined remotely by 23 university students participating online, watching lectures streamed live or playing them back later, and interacting with the tutor via a forum.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Education\/ESA_Academy\/Smooth_operators_students_complete_Ladybird_Guide_to_Spacecraft_Operations_Training_Course_2019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Smooth operators: students complete Ladybird Guide to Spacecraft Operations Training Course 2019<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spacecraft are complex machines requiring dedicated staff to maintain their operations over the entire duration of a mission. To help prepare the next generation of spacecraft operators,\u00a0ESA Academy\u00a0has run the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":632132,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-632131","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\/632131","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=632131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/632132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=632131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=632131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=632131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}