{"id":701298,"date":"2021-09-08T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=701298"},"modified":"2021-09-08T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T13:00:00","slug":"targeted-launch-date-for-webb-18-december-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=701298","title":{"rendered":"Targeted launch date for Webb: 18 December 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Artist_s_view_of_Webb_on_an_Ariane_5_rocket_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>ESA, NASA and Arianespace have jointly defined 18 December 2021 as the target launch date for Ariane 5 flight VA256. This third Ariane 5 launch of 2021 will fly the James <a href=\"\/Science_Exploration\/Space_Science\/Webb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Webb<\/a> Space Telescope to space from Europe&#8217;s Spaceport in French Guiana.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Science_Exploration\/Space_Science\/Webb\/Targeted_launch_date_for_Webb_18_December_2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Targeted launch date for Webb: 18 December 2021<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESA, NASA and Arianespace have jointly defined 18 December 2021 as the target launch date for Ariane 5 flight VA256. This third Ariane 5 launch of 2021 will fly the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":701299,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-701298","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\/701298","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=701298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/701299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=701298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=701298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=701298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}