{"id":799688,"date":"2025-12-12T10:41:44","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T15:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=799688"},"modified":"2025-12-12T10:41:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T15:41:44","slug":"esa-galileo-satellite-encapsulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=799688","title":{"rendered":"ESA &#8211; Galileo satellite encapsulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"modal__tab-content--details\">\n<div class=\"modal__tab-description\">\n<p>Two Galileo satellites being placed inside the protective \u2018nose cone\u2019 of Ariane 6 (known as the fairing) at Europe\u2019s\u00a0Spaceport in French Guiana.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The fairing plays a crucial role as it shields the satellites from the elements and\u00a0maintains\u00a0a stable temperature and humidity.\u00a0It also provides the aerodynamic shape Ariane 6 needs to pierce through Earth\u2019s atmosphere as it thunders toward space.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The fairing separates during launch, allowing the satellites to begin their journey to medium Earth orbit, 23 222 km above Earth, ready to deliver precise navigation services to billions of users worldwide.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Images\/2025\/12\/Galileo_satellite_encapsulation?rand=772187\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Galileo satellites being placed inside the protective \u2018nose cone\u2019 of Ariane 6 (known as the fairing) at Europe\u2019s\u00a0Spaceport in French Guiana.\u00a0 The fairing plays a crucial role as it&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":799689,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-799688","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\/799688","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=799688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/799689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=799688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=799688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=799688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}