{"id":658291,"date":"2020-06-17T11:45:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T15:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=658291"},"modified":"2020-06-17T11:45:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T15:45:00","slug":"watch-vegas-rideshare-launch-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=658291","title":{"rendered":"Watch Vega&#039;s rideshare launch live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Artist_s_view_of_Vega_VV16_with_SSMS_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"Artist's view of Vega flight VV16 with the Small Spacecraft Mission Service (SSMS) dispenser\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tune in to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/esawebtv\" title=\"ESA Web TV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ESA Web TV<\/a>\u00a0on Friday 19 June from 02:36 BST \/ 03:36 CEST to watch the return to flight of Vega on its debut rideshare mission\u00a0dedicated to light satellites.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/vega\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Vega<\/a> will lift off from Europe&#8217;s Spaceport in French Guiana\u00a0carrying 53 satellites on its new dispenser called the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Enabling_Support\/Space_Transportation\/Rideshare_service_for_light_satellites_to_launch_on_Vega\" title=\"About the SSMS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Small Spacecraft Mission Service<\/a>, or SSMS.<\/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_Transportation\/Vega\/Watch_Vega_s_rideshare_launch_live\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Watch Vega&#8217;s rideshare launch live<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tune in to ESA Web TV\u00a0on Friday 19 June from 02:36 BST \/ 03:36 CEST to watch the return to flight of Vega on its debut rideshare mission\u00a0dedicated to light&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":658292,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658291","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\/658291","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=658291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/658292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=658291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=658291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=658291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}