{"id":716118,"date":"2022-02-10T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=716118"},"modified":"2022-02-10T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T10:00:00","slug":"introducing-esa-vigil-earths-devoted-solar-defender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=716118","title":{"rendered":"Introducing ESA Vigil: Earth\u2019s devoted solar defender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Vigil_warns_Earth_card_full.png\" alt=\"Vigil warns Earth\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Once known as <a href=\"\/Safety_Security\/The_no_name_space_weather_mission\" title=\"ESA's upcoming Space Weather mission\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">\u201cLagrange,\u201d<\/a> ESA\u2019s upcoming <a href=\"\/Safety_Security\/Space_weather\" title=\"Space weather\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">space weather<\/a> mission needed a new name that would reflect its vital role: helping to protect Earth\u2019s infrastructure, satellites, inhabitants and space explorers from unpredictable but violent solar events like solar flares and \u2018coronal mass ejections\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>With 5422 submissions from across Europe and indeed around the world \u2013 and after weeks of deliberation, countless spreadsheets, three diverse and expert judges and a lively debate \u2013 a new name has been selected for our upcoming space weather mission: <a href=\"\/Safety_Security\/Vigil\" title=\"ESA Vigil\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ESA Vigil<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Safety_Security\/Space_weather\/Introducing_ESA_Vigil_Earth_s_devoted_solar_defender\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Introducing ESA Vigil: Earth\u2019s devoted solar defender<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once known as \u201cLagrange,\u201d ESA\u2019s upcoming space weather mission needed a new name that would reflect its vital role: helping to protect Earth\u2019s infrastructure, satellites, inhabitants and space explorers from&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":716119,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-716118","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\/716118","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=716118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/716119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=716118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=716118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=716118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}