{"id":63315,"date":"2019-01-09T19:54:56","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T11:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/arianespace-to-launch-angels-frances-1st-nanosatellite\/"},"modified":"2019-01-09T19:54:56","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T11:54:56","slug":"arianespace-to-launch-angels-frances-1st-nanosatellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/arianespace-to-launch-angels-frances-1st-nanosatellite\/","title":{"rendered":"Arianespace to Launch ANGELS, France\u2019s 1st Nanosatellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Arianespace<\/strong> and the <strong>French Center for National Space Studies (CNES) Space Agency<\/strong> revealed that they have signed a launch contract for Argos N\u00e9o on a Generic Economical and Light Satellite (ANGELS), the first nanosatellite completely built by French industry.<\/p>\n<p>ANGELS will be launched as an auxiliary payload with the Cosmo-SkyMed Second Generation (CSG 1) and Characterizing Exoplanet Satellites (CHEOPS) by a Soyuz rocket in 2019 from the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana. It is jointly financed and developed by the French CNES Space Agency and <strong>Nexeya<\/strong>, an industrial group active in the aerospace, defense, energy, rail, and automotive markets.<\/p>\n<p>The satellite will be fitted with a miniaturized Argos N\u00e9o instrument, which is 10-times smaller than the equivalent previous-generation device. The instrument collects and determines the position of low-power signals and messages sent by the 20,000 Argos beacons now in service worldwide. Two project teams \u2014 CNES and Nexeya for ANGELS, and CNES, <strong>Thales Alenia Space<\/strong> and <strong>Syrlinks<\/strong> for Argos N\u00e9o \u2014 are working together on this French space project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arianespace and the French Center for National Space Studies (CNES) Space Agency revealed that they have signed a launch contract for Argos N\u00e9o on a Generic Economical and Light Satellite (ANGELS), the first nanosatellite completely built by French industry. ANGELS will be launched as an auxiliary payload with the Cosmo-SkyMed Second Generation (CSG 1) and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63315"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}