{"id":802292,"date":"2026-05-22T09:19:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T14:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=802292"},"modified":"2026-05-22T09:19:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T14:19:31","slug":"vega-c-liftoff-with-smile-up-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=802292","title":{"rendered":"Vega-C liftoff with Smile up close"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"modal__tab-content--details\">\n<div class=\"modal__tab-description\">\n<p>Vega-C liftoff from Europe\u2019s Spaceport in French Guiana at 00:52 local time (04:52 BST\/05:52 CEST) on 19 May 2026. Vega-C carried the Smile mission to space on flight VV29.<\/p>\n<p>Find out more about Smile\u2019s journey from launch to orbit.<\/p>\n<p>Find out more about Vega-C.<\/p>\n<p><i>Smile (the Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer) is a joint mission between the European Space Agency and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>The Vega-C programme is led by ESA, working with\u202f<\/i><i>Avio<\/i><i>\u202fas prime contractor and design authority.<\/i> <i>It ensures that Europe has versatile and independent access to space.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>[Image description: A night-time photo showing a rocket taking off from a launchpad.]<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Images\/2026\/05\/Vega-C_liftoff_with_Smile_up_close?rand=772187\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vega-C liftoff from Europe\u2019s Spaceport in French Guiana at 00:52 local time (04:52 BST\/05:52 CEST) on 19 May 2026. Vega-C carried the Smile mission to space on flight VV29. Find&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":802293,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-802292","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\/802292","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=802292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/802293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=802292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=802292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=802292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}