{"id":13566,"date":"2017-11-08T06:00:11","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T06:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/?p=13566"},"modified":"2017-11-08T06:00:11","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T06:00:11","slug":"vega-launches-earth-observation-satellite-morocco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/vega-launches-earth-observation-satellite-morocco\/","title":{"rendered":"Vega Launches Earth observation satellite for Morocco"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_13568\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13568\" style=\"width: 305px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13568 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Vega_lifts_off_medium.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"305\" height=\"305\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Vega_lifts_off_medium.jpg 305w, https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Vega_lifts_off_medium-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Vega_lifts_off_medium-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 305px) 100vw, 305px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13568\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vega lifts off<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Arianespace has launched a Vega rocket to deliver an Earth observation satellite into orbit for the Kingdom of Morocco.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Liftoff of Vega\u2019s 11th mission from Europe\u2019s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana came at 01:42 GMT on 8 November (02:42 CET; 22:42 local time on 7 November).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">With a mass at liftoff of 1110 kg, Mohammed VI-A was manoeuvred into its target Sun-synchronous orbit about 55 minutes into the mission after a series of burns of Vega\u2019s upper stage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Complying with debris regulations to help keep space clean, Vega\u2019s upper stage fired a final time to burn up high in the atmosphere over the ocean.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Vega is a 30 m-high, four-stage vehicle designed to accommodate small scientific and Earth observation payloads of 300\u20132500 kg, depending on the orbit.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arianespace has launched a Vega rocket to deliver an Earth observation satellite into orbit for the Kingdom of Morocco. Liftoff of Vega\u2019s 11th mission from Europe\u2019s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana came at 01:42 GMT on 8 November (02:42 CET; 22:42 local time on 7 November). With a mass at liftoff of 1110 kg, Mohammed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":13568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13566","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\/11\/Vega_lifts_off_medium.jpg",305,305,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Vega_lifts_off_medium-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Vega_lifts_off_medium-300x300.jpg",300,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Vega_lifts_off_medium.jpg",305,305,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Vega_lifts_off_medium.jpg",305,305,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Vega_lifts_off_medium.jpg",305,305,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Vega_lifts_off_medium.jpg",305,305,false],"ultp_layout_landscape_large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Vega_lifts_off_medium.jpg",305,305,false],"ultp_layout_landscape":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Vega_lifts_off_medium.jpg",305,305,false],"ultp_layout_portrait":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Vega_lifts_off_medium.jpg",305,305,false],"ultp_layout_square":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Vega_lifts_off_medium.jpg",305,305,false],"newspaper-x-single-post":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Vega_lifts_off_medium.jpg",305,305,false],"newspaper-x-recent-post-big":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Vega_lifts_off_medium.jpg",305,305,false],"newspaper-x-recent-post-list-image":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Vega_lifts_off_medium.jpg",65,65,false],"web-stories-poster-portrait":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Vega_lifts_off_medium.jpg",305,305,false],"web-stories-publisher-logo":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Vega_lifts_off_medium.jpg",96,96,false],"web-stories-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Vega_lifts_off_medium.jpg",150,150,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Amrita Tuladhar"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/category\/news\/space-news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Space\/ AstroPhysics<\/a>","tag_info":"Space\/ AstroPhysics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13566","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=13566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}