{"id":800801,"date":"2026-02-20T09:12:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T14:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=800801"},"modified":"2026-02-20T09:12:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T14:12:29","slug":"smile-leaving-saint-nazaire-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=800801","title":{"rendered":"Smile leaving Saint-Nazaire in France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"modal__tab-content--details\">\n<div class=\"modal__tab-description\">\n<p>On 11 February 2026, the Smile spacecraft was loaded into a ship in the Port of Amsterdam, ready for transport across the Atlantic Ocean to Europe\u2019s Spaceport in French Guiana.<\/p>\n<p>On the way, it made a quick pit-stop in Saint Nazaire, France, to pick up the upper stage of the Vega-C rocket that will carry it to space and drop it off into orbit around Earth.<\/p>\n<p>This image, taken by the Smile Product Assurance Manager Bruno Bras, was taken as Smile left the Port of Saint-Nazaire.<\/p>\n<p>Find out more<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Images\/2026\/02\/Smile_leaving_Saint-Nazaire_in_France?rand=772187\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 11 February 2026, the Smile spacecraft was loaded into a ship in the Port of Amsterdam, ready for transport across the Atlantic Ocean to Europe\u2019s Spaceport in French Guiana.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":800785,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-800801","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\/800801","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=800801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/800785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=800801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=800801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=800801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}