{"id":774948,"date":"2023-12-03T12:47:52","date_gmt":"2023-12-03T17:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=774948"},"modified":"2023-12-03T12:47:52","modified_gmt":"2023-12-03T17:47:52","slug":"lift-off-for-eirsat-1-irelands-first-ever-satellite-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=774948","title":{"rendered":"Lift-off for EIRSAT-1, Ireland\u2019s first ever satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/one.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2023\/12\/liftoff_for_ireland_s_first_satellite_eirsat-1\/25347845-2-eng-GB\/Liftoff_for_Ireland_s_first_satellite_EIRSAT-1_card_full.png\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>Six years of hard work and dedication paid off in spectacular fashion today, as the Educational Irish Research Satellite, EIRSAT-1, successfully blasted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. Hitching a ride on a Space-X Falcon-9 launcher, the tiny satellite \u2013 measuring just 10.7cm x 10.7cm x 22.7cm \u2013 has now made history as Ireland\u2019s first satellite!<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/one.esa.int\/Education\/CubeSats_-_Fly_Your_Satellite\/Lift-off_for_EIRSAT-1_Ireland_s_first_ever_satellite?rand=771654\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six years of hard work and dedication paid off in spectacular fashion today, as the Educational Irish Research Satellite, EIRSAT-1, successfully blasted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. Hitching&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-774948","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\/774948","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=774948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774948\/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=774948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=774948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=774948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}