{"id":720479,"date":"2022-04-06T03:45:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T07:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=720479"},"modified":"2022-04-06T03:45:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T07:45:00","slug":"406-day-how-galileo-helps-save-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=720479","title":{"rendered":"406 Day: how Galileo helps save lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\"Arctic rescue exercise\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Today is the annual <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23406Day&amp;src=typed_query&amp;f=live\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">406 Day<\/a>, celebrating the life-saving importance of emergency beacons, named for the radio frequency they operate on, as well as the satellites that relay their signals \u2013 with Europe\u2019s own Galileo constellation prominent among them. While Galileo\u2019s main purpose is satellite navigation, the system also picks up distress messages from across the globe and relays them to regional search and rescue authorities.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/one.esa.int\/Applications\/Navigation\/406_Day_how_Galileo_helps_save_lives\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">406 Day: how Galileo helps save lives<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the annual 406 Day, celebrating the life-saving importance of emergency beacons, named for the radio frequency they operate on, as well as the satellites that relay their signals&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-720479","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\/720479","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=720479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=720479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=720479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=720479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}