{"id":640500,"date":"2019-12-12T14:13:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T18:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=640500"},"modified":"2019-12-12T14:13:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T18:13:00","slug":"cheops-being-placed-on-the-soyuz-fregat-launch-vehicle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=640500","title":{"rendered":"Cheops being placed on the Soyuz Fregat launch vehicle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Cheops_being_placed_on_the_Soyuz_Fregat_launch_vehicle_card_full.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThe Cheops satellite, installed on the flight adapter ring is being placed on the Soyuz Fregat launch vehicle on 6 December 2019.<br \/>Scheduled for launch on 17 December, Cheops is ESA\u2019s first mission dedicated to the study of extrasolar planets, or exoplanets. It will observe bright stars that are already known to host planets, measuring minuscule brightness changes due to the planet\u2019s transit across the star\u2019s disc.<\/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\/Images\/2019\/12\/Cheops_being_placed_on_the_Soyuz_Fregat_launch_vehicle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Cheops being placed on the Soyuz Fregat launch vehicle<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Top Multimedia&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cheops satellite, installed on the flight adapter ring is being placed on the Soyuz Fregat launch vehicle on 6 December 2019.Scheduled for launch on 17 December, Cheops is ESA\u2019s&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":640501,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-640500","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\/640500","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=640500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/640501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=640500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=640500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=640500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}