{"id":797508,"date":"2025-07-29T02:56:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T07:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=797508"},"modified":"2025-07-29T02:56:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T07:56:10","slug":"esa-vv27-road-to-liftoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=797508","title":{"rendered":"ESA &#8211; VV27 road to liftoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"modal__tab-content--details\">\n<div class=\"modal__tab-description\">\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Highlights and liftoff of Vega-C flight VV27 from Europe\u2019s Spaceport in French Guiana,\u00a0at 23:03 local time on 25 July (03:03 BST\/04:03 CEST on 26 July).<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Flight VV27 was operated by Arianespace and launched Airbus\u2019s four\u00a0CO3D satellites\u00a0and the French space agency CNES\u00a0MicroCarb\u00a0mission.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The four small satellites in the CO3D constellation (an abbreviation of the French &#8216;Constellation Optique en 3D&#8217;) are set to map the globe in three dimensions from low Earth orbit, to serve public and private sector needs.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>MicroCarb is designed to map sources and sinks of carbon dioxide\u00a0on a global scale.\u00a0ESA coordinated and procured the launch of MicroCarb on behalf of the European Commission, as part of its\u00a0In-Orbit Demonstration \/ In-Orbit Validation (IOD\/IOV) programme.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t<label style=\"display: block; font-size: 0.9em; color: #8197A6; margin: 3rem 0 -1rem 0;\">Embed code<\/label><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<textarea rows=\"4\" cols=\"60\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"VV27 road to liftoff\" width=\"1110\" height=\"624\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DYw1b7Ydx54?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/textarea><\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Videos\/2025\/07\/VV27_road_to_liftoff?rand=772187\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Highlights and liftoff of Vega-C flight VV27 from Europe\u2019s Spaceport in French Guiana,\u00a0at 23:03 local time on 25 July (03:03 BST\/04:03 CEST on 26 July). \u00a0 Flight VV27 was&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":797509,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-797508","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\/797508","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=797508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/797509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=797508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=797508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=797508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}