{"id":801299,"date":"2026-03-23T11:33:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T16:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=801299"},"modified":"2026-03-23T11:33:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T16:33:29","slug":"celeste-countdown-to-launch-1-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=801299","title":{"rendered":"Celeste: Countdown to Launch 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"modal__tab-content--details\">\n<div class=\"modal__tab-description\">\n<p>On 25 March, the first two satellites of the Celeste in-orbit demonstration mission will lift off aboard Rocket Lab\u2019s Electron rocket from the company\u2019s M\u0101hia Launch Complex in New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>Celeste will play a pioneering role in elevating the future of Europe\u2019s satellite navigation capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>As ESA\u2019s initiative for satellite navigation in low Earth orbit (LEO-PNT), the mission will be testing next-generation technologies and add new frequency bands for satellite navigation to inform the deployment of a future European operational navigation system in low Earth orbit.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The mission will begin with two demonstrator satellites, IOD1-2, to secure and test the assigned frequency filings and transmit representative navigation signals until the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>The two satellites consist of two CubeSats (12U and 16U respectively), both developed by two consortia composed by a wide set of European players, one led by GMV (Spain) and the other led by Thales Alenia Space (France).<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about Celeste:\u00a0<\/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=\"Celeste: Countdown to Launch 1\" width=\"1110\" height=\"624\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zFgJbFPkEfM?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\/2026\/03\/Celeste_Countdown_to_Launch_1?rand=772187\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 25 March, the first two satellites of the Celeste in-orbit demonstration mission will lift off aboard Rocket Lab\u2019s Electron rocket from the company\u2019s M\u0101hia Launch Complex in New Zealand.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":801298,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-801299","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\/801299","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=801299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/801298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=801299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=801299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=801299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}