{"id":731101,"date":"2022-07-28T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-28T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=731101"},"modified":"2022-07-28T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-28T15:00:00","slug":"vega-c-inaugural-launch-campaign-timelapse-vv21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=731101","title":{"rendered":"Vega-C inaugural launch campaign timelapse, VV21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Vega-C_inaugural_launch_campaign_timelapse_VV21_card_full.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>ESA\u2019s new Vega-C rocket lifted off for its inaugural flight VV21 on 13 July 2022 at 15:13 CEST from Europe\u2019s Spaceport in French Guiana.<\/p>\n<p>With new first and second stages and an uprated fourth stage, Vega-C increases performance to about 2.3 t in a reference 700 km polar orbit, from the 1.5 t capability of its predecessor, Vega.<\/p>\n<p>For flight VV21, Vega-C\u2019s payload is LARES-2, a scientific mission of the Italian space agency ASI and six research CubeSats from France, Italy and Slovenia.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/esatv\/Videos\/2021\/12\/Vega-C_B-Rolls\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Access the related broadcast quality video material.<\/a><\/p>\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\/2022\/07\/Vega-C_inaugural_launch_campaign_timelapse_VV21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Vega-C inaugural launch campaign timelapse, VV21<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Top Multimedia&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESA\u2019s new Vega-C rocket lifted off for its inaugural flight VV21 on 13 July 2022 at 15:13 CEST from Europe\u2019s Spaceport in French Guiana. With new first and second stages&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":731102,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-731101","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\/731101","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=731101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/731102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=731101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=731101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=731101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}