{"id":716295,"date":"2022-02-11T08:57:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-11T12:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=716295"},"modified":"2022-02-11T08:57:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T12:57:00","slug":"esas-vega-rocket-marks-ten-years-with-countdown-to-more-powerful-successor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=716295","title":{"rendered":"ESA\u2019s Vega rocket marks ten years with countdown to more powerful successor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Vega_VV20_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"Launch of Vega VV20 \" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ten years ago today, ESA opened a new era of independent access to space with the inaugural flight of its small launcher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Enabling_Support\/Space_Transportation\/Vega\" title=\"Vega\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Vega<\/a>. Flying from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Enabling_Support\/Space_Transportation\/Europe_s_Spaceport\" title=\"Europe's Spaceport\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Europe\u2019s Spaceport in French Guiana<\/a>, Vega has gone on to earn a reputation for precision and versatility in anticipation of a more capable version, Vega-C.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Enabling_Support\/Space_Transportation\/Vega\/ESA_s_Vega_rocket_marks_ten_years_with_countdown_to_more_powerful_successor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ESA\u2019s Vega rocket marks ten years with countdown to more powerful successor<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten years ago today, ESA opened a new era of independent access to space with the inaugural flight of its small launcher Vega. Flying from Europe\u2019s Spaceport in French Guiana,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":716296,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-716295","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\/716295","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=716295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/716296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=716295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=716295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=716295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}