{"id":738001,"date":"2022-10-17T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=738001"},"modified":"2022-10-17T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T14:00:00","slug":"ariane-6-stands-tall-on-its-launch-pad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=738001","title":{"rendered":"Ariane\u202f6 stands tall on its launch pad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/ARIANE_6_fully_stacked_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"ARIANE 6 fully stacked\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Ariane 6 launch pad at Europe\u2019s Spaceport in French Guiana now hosts for the first time a fully assembled example of ESA\u2019s new heavy-lift rocket, following the addition of an upper composite to the core stage and four boosters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Enabling_Support\/Space_Transportation\/Ariane\/Ariane_6_central_core_transferred_to_mobile_gantry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">already in place<\/a>. The upper composite \u2013 consisting of two half-fairings and a payload mock-up with the structural adapter needed to join it to the core stage \u2013 made the 10 km trip from the encapsulation building to launch pad on 12 October.<\/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\/Ariane\/Ariane_6_stands_tall_on_its_launch_pad\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ariane\u202f6 stands tall on its launch pad<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ariane 6 launch pad at Europe\u2019s Spaceport in French Guiana now hosts for the first time a fully assembled example of ESA\u2019s new heavy-lift rocket, following the addition of&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":738002,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-738001","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\/738001","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=738001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/738002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=738001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=738001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=738001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}