{"id":803540,"date":"2026-08-31T10:32:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T15:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=803540"},"modified":"2026-08-31T10:32:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T15:32:31","slug":"what-happened-this-month-at-the-european-space-agency-august-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=803540","title":{"rendered":"What happened this month at the European Space Agency? (August 2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"modal__tab-content--details\">\n<div class=\"modal__tab-description\">\n<p>August was a busy month for ESA, between spectacular views, historic milestones and exciting new discoveries.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>From a total solar eclipse broadcast live from Spain and Sophie Adenot\u2019s historic spacewalks, to the launch of MTG-I2 aboard Ariane 6, a breathtaking flight over Mars and a surprising discovery near our galaxy\u2019s central black hole, here\u2019s your monthly roundup from the European Space Agency.\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=\"What happened this month at the European Space Agency? (August 2026)\" width=\"1110\" height=\"624\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tKZV-koyxtg?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\/08\/What_happened_this_month_at_the_European_Space_Agency_August_2026?rand=771654\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August was a busy month for ESA, between spectacular views, historic milestones and exciting new discoveries.\u00a0 From a total solar eclipse broadcast live from Spain and Sophie Adenot\u2019s historic spacewalks,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":803541,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-803540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ESA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803540","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=803540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/803541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=803540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=803540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=803540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}