{"id":82308,"date":"2012-10-15T21:07:08","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T13:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/arianespace-launches-two-more-satellites-for-europes-galileo-gps\/"},"modified":"2012-10-15T21:07:08","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T13:07:08","slug":"arianespace-launches-two-more-satellites-for-europes-galileo-gps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/arianespace-launches-two-more-satellites-for-europes-galileo-gps\/","title":{"rendered":"Arianespace Launches Two More Satellites for Europe\u2019s Galileo GPS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Satellite TODAY 10-15-12] <strong>Arianespace <\/strong>launched two satellites into orbit for Europe\u2019s Galileo global position system aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket from French Guiana on Oct. 12, the <strong>European Space Agency (ESA)<\/strong> confirmed Oct. 13.<\/p>\n<p>\tThe launch brings the number of Galileo satellites now in orbit to four, as two others were launched last year. The Galileo system is designed \u201cto free Europe of dependence on America\u2019s Global Positioning System,\u201d ESA said in a statement. It is estimated to cost over 20 billion euros (around $26 billion) and aims to be a fully operational 30-satellite constellation by 2020.<br \/>\n\tThe prime contractor is European aerospace company <strong>EADS <\/strong>with major subcontracting conducted by <strong>Thales Alenia Space<\/strong>.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Satellite TODAY 10-15-12] Arianespace launched two satellites into orbit for Europe\u2019s Galileo global position system aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket from French Guiana on Oct. 12, the European Space Agency (ESA) confirmed Oct. 13. The launch brings the number of Galileo satellites now in orbit to four, as two others were launched last year. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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-82308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82308"}],"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=82308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}