{"id":650595,"date":"2020-03-31T07:25:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T11:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=650595"},"modified":"2020-03-31T07:25:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T11:25:00","slug":"esas-other-galileo-satellite-in-action-on-the-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=650595","title":{"rendered":"ESA\u2019s other Galileo satellite: in action, on the ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Galileo_IOV_Engineering_Model_Payload_Testbed_Facility_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"Galileo IOV Engineering Model Payload Testbed Facility\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Europe has 26 Galileo navigation satellites in orbit, blanketing the world in positioning signals, with another 12 planned for launch, variously taking shape or undergoing testing in facilities across our continent. Then there is one more satellite, operating as if it were in space but actually turned inside out on the ground, inside a laboratory within ESA\u2019s technical heart.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Enabling_Support\/Space_Engineering_Technology\/ESA_s_other_Galileo_satellite_in_action_on_the_ground\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ESA\u2019s other Galileo satellite: in action, on the ground<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space Engineering &amp; Technology&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Europe has 26 Galileo navigation satellites in orbit, blanketing the world in positioning signals, with another 12 planned for launch, variously taking shape or undergoing testing in facilities across our&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":650596,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-650595","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\/650595","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=650595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/650596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=650595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=650595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=650595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}