{"id":64490,"date":"2018-07-26T00:44:05","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T16:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/ariane-5-reaches-its-99th-mission-with-latest-galileo-launch\/"},"modified":"2018-07-26T00:44:05","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T16:44:05","slug":"ariane-5-reaches-its-99th-mission-with-latest-galileo-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/ariane-5-reaches-its-99th-mission-with-latest-galileo-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Ariane 5 Reaches its 99th Mission with Latest Galileo Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>Arianespace<\/strong> successfully launched four more satellites in the Galileo constellation. The launch happened today at 8:25 a.m. GMT-3 from the Guiana Space Center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Today\u2019s launch was the 99th mission by the Ariane 5 heavy launcher. It was carried out on behalf of the <b>European Commission<\/b> as part of a contract with the <b>European Space Agency<\/b> (ESA). It also was the last in a series of three launches for Galileo using the version of Ariane 5 with a storable propellant upper stage (ES). Two additional missions to deploy four more satellites have been assigned to the A62 version of the upcoming Ariane 6 launch vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Today\u2019s launch also was a landmark for the European space sector. It brought together the ESA Director General; heads of national space agencies; European Commissioner for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship, and Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs)&nbsp;El\u017cbieta Bie\u0144kowska; French Minister of Higher Education, Research, and Innovation Fr\u00e9d\u00e9rique Vidal; French Minister for the Ecological and Inclusive Transition S\u00e9bastien Lecornu; and Spanish Minister for Science, Innovation, and Universities Pedro Duque.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arianespace successfully launched four more satellites in the Galileo constellation. The launch happened today at 8:25 a.m. GMT-3 from the Guiana Space Center. Today\u2019s launch was the 99th mission by the Ariane 5 heavy launcher. It was carried out on behalf of the European Commission as part of a contract with the European Space Agency [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64493,"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-64490","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\/64490"}],"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=64490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}