{"id":11793,"date":"2017-03-23T06:25:41","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T06:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revoscience.com\/en\/?p=11793"},"modified":"2017-03-23T06:25:41","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T06:25:41","slug":"esoc-control-room-1978","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/esoc-control-room-1978\/","title":{"rendered":"ESOC Control Room 1978"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Credit: ESA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In 2017, ESA\u2019s European Space Operations Centre will celebrate its 50th anniversary, having been inaugurated on 8 September 1967 as part of the European Space Research Organisation (ESRO).<\/span><\/p>\n

Within months, the centre was controlling its first mission, ESRO-2B , a 74 kg satellite carrying seven instruments to study solar and cosmic radiation and their interaction with Earth and its magnetosphere.<\/span><\/p>\n

The 1970s were a busy time at the control centre, with the number of missions steadily increasing.<\/span><\/p>\n

The decade saw 10 new missions launched by ESRO, of which eight (HEOS-A2, TD-1A, ESRO-4, COS-B, GEOS-1, Meteosat-1, GEOS-2 and OTS-2) were operated from here.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 1975, ESRO joined with the European Launcher Development Organisation (ELDO) to become the European Space Agency.<\/span><\/p>\n

Today, teams are operating comprising 18 spacecraft on 11 missions, including Mars Express, Gaia, ExoMars, Sentinel-1 and -2, and CryoSat. Twelve more missions are in preparation for launch in the next few years.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In 2017, ESA\u2019s European Space Operations Centre will celebrate its 50th anniversary, having been inaugurated on 8 September 1967 as part of the European Space Research Organisation (ESRO). Within months, the centre was controlling its first mission, ESRO-2B , a 74 kg satellite carrying seven instruments to study solar and cosmic radiation and their interaction […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":11794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-space-news"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESOC_Control_Room_1978_node_full_image_2.jpg",700,680,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESOC_Control_Room_1978_node_full_image_2-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESOC_Control_Room_1978_node_full_image_2-300x291.jpg",300,291,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESOC_Control_Room_1978_node_full_image_2.jpg",700,680,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESOC_Control_Room_1978_node_full_image_2.jpg",700,680,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESOC_Control_Room_1978_node_full_image_2.jpg",700,680,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESOC_Control_Room_1978_node_full_image_2.jpg",700,680,false],"ultp_layout_landscape_large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESOC_Control_Room_1978_node_full_image_2.jpg",700,680,false],"ultp_layout_landscape":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESOC_Control_Room_1978_node_full_image_2.jpg",587,570,false],"ultp_layout_portrait":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESOC_Control_Room_1978_node_full_image_2.jpg",600,583,false],"ultp_layout_square":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESOC_Control_Room_1978_node_full_image_2.jpg",600,583,false],"newspaper-x-single-post":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESOC_Control_Room_1978_node_full_image_2.jpg",504,490,false],"newspaper-x-recent-post-big":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESOC_Control_Room_1978_node_full_image_2.jpg",371,360,false],"newspaper-x-recent-post-list-image":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESOC_Control_Room_1978_node_full_image_2.jpg",67,65,false],"web-stories-poster-portrait":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESOC_Control_Room_1978_node_full_image_2.jpg",640,622,false],"web-stories-publisher-logo":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESOC_Control_Room_1978_node_full_image_2.jpg",96,93,false],"web-stories-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ESOC_Control_Room_1978_node_full_image_2.jpg",150,146,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Amrita Tuladhar"]},"category_info":"Space\/ AstroPhysics<\/a>","tag_info":"Space\/ AstroPhysics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}