{"id":793129,"date":"2025-01-29T18:45:08","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T23:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=793129"},"modified":"2025-01-29T18:45:08","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T23:45:08","slug":"esa-17th-european-space-conference-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=793129","title":{"rendered":"ESA &#8211; 17th European Space Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"modal__tab-content--details\">\n<div class=\"modal__tab-description\">\n<p>From left to right: Arianespace Chief Commercial Officer Steven Rutgers, ESA Director of Science Carole Mundell, ESA Director of Space Transportation Toni Tolker-Nielsen, ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher and Arianespace CEO David Cavaillol\u00e8s during the signature event of the launch agreement to fly ESA\u2019s scientific mission Plato, at the 17th European Space Conference in Brussels. Plato, PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars, is ESA\u2019s groundbreaking mission to discover potentially habitable planets around stars similar to our Sun, and study thousands of exoplanets in detail, focusing on terrestrial ones. Plato will board Ariane 6 with two boosters for a launch from Europe\u2019s Spaceport, in French Guiana, end of 2026, and will be placed into orbit around the Sun-Earth Lagrange point L2.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Read more\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Images\/2025\/01\/17th_European_Space_Conference_-_ESA_and_Arianespace_seal_the_launch_agreement_for_Plato2?rand=772187\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From left to right: Arianespace Chief Commercial Officer Steven Rutgers, ESA Director of Science Carole Mundell, ESA Director of Space Transportation Toni Tolker-Nielsen, ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher and Arianespace&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":793130,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-793129","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\/793129","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=793129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/793130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=793129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=793129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=793129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}