{"id":711309,"date":"2021-12-15T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=711309"},"modified":"2021-12-15T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T15:00:00","slug":"first-vega-c-rocket-stages-reach-europes-spaceport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=711309","title":{"rendered":"First Vega-C rocket stages reach Europe\u2019s Spaceport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/First_Vega-C_rocket_stages_reach_Europe_s_Spaceport_card_full.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The first elements of ESA\u2019s new-generation Vega-C launch vehicle departed from Avio\u2019s Colleferro factory in Italy in November 2021 for shipment to Europe\u2019s Spaceport in French Guiana. Vega-C\u2019s second stage Zefiro-40, and third stage Zefiro-9 solid rocket motor were built by Avio, prime contractor to ESA for the development of Vega-C launcher system and ground proximity means.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"eztoc23853707_0_0_0_0_0_1\" id=\"eztoc23853707_0_0_0_0_0_1\" \/> <\/p>\n<h6>Footage courtesy of:<\/h6>\n<p><a name=\"eztoc23853707_0_0_0_0_0_2\" id=\"eztoc23853707_0_0_0_0_0_2\" \/> <\/p>\n<h6>Avio<\/h6>\n<p><a name=\"eztoc23853707_0_0_0_0_0_3\" id=\"eztoc23853707_0_0_0_0_0_3\" \/> <\/p>\n<h6>ESA\/CNES\/Arianespace<\/h6>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Videos\/2021\/12\/First_Vega-C_rocket_stages_reach_Europe_s_Spaceport\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">First Vega-C rocket stages reach Europe\u2019s Spaceport<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Top Multimedia&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first elements of ESA\u2019s new-generation Vega-C launch vehicle departed from Avio\u2019s Colleferro factory in Italy in November 2021 for shipment to Europe\u2019s Spaceport in French Guiana. Vega-C\u2019s second stage&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":711310,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-711309","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\/711309","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=711309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/711310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=711309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=711309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=711309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}