{"id":3422,"date":"2015-03-18T11:15:52","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T11:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revoscience.com\/en\/?p=3422"},"modified":"2015-03-18T11:15:52","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T11:15:52","slug":"galileo-meets-galileo-as-lunch-draws-near","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/galileo-meets-galileo-as-lunch-draws-near\/","title":{"rendered":"Galileo meets Galileo as lunch draws near"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"section\" style=\"color: #031e31;\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_3425\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3425\" style=\"width: 170px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Galileo_satellites_fitted_onto_dispenser_small.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3425\" src=\"http:\/\/revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Galileo_satellites_fitted_onto_dispenser_small.jpg\" alt=\"Galileo satellites fitted onto dispenser\" width=\"170\" height=\"240\" title=\"\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3425\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Galileo satellites fitted onto dispenser<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The seventh and eighth Galileo satellites, set for launch together in nine days\u2019 time, have been fitted together onto the dispenser that will carry them during their flight to orbit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The fuelling of the two satellites was completed last week, leaving them ready to be placed into launch configuration. They were carefully lowered into place then attached to the dispenser.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The operation went smoothly, the two satellites having previously gone through separate \u2018fit checks\u2019 with the dispenser in advance of fuelling.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The specially designed carrier will hold the satellites in place during their four-hour flight into orbit some 22 3000 km above our planet. Then, at the correct altitude, the two satellites are sprung away in opposing directions.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"s_1\" class=\"section\" style=\"color: #031e31; text-align: justify;\">\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Next, the dispenser plus satellites will be placed onto the Fregat upper stage of their Soyuz ST-B launcher.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3426\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3426\" style=\"width: 194px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Galileo_s_Fregat_separating_small.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3426\" src=\"http:\/\/revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Galileo_s_Fregat_separating_small.jpg\" alt=\"Galileo_s_Fregat_separating_small\" width=\"194\" height=\"149\" title=\"\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3426\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dispenser plus satellites atop Fregat in space<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As much a spacecraft as a launch stage, the reignitable Fregat will haul the Galileo satellites most of the way up to their final orbital altitude, once the first three stages of the Soyuz have taken them up to their initial orbit.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"s_2\" class=\"section\" style=\"color: #031e31;\">\n<div class=\"img_obj l_img\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Note the protective metal panels covering the solar wings folded against the sides of the Galileo satellites.<\/span><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Protecting these delicate solar arrays during handling on the ground, these panels will be removed ahead of launch.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The launch of the seventh and eighth Galileo satellites is scheduled on Friday, 27 March.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The seventh and eighth Galileo satellites, set for launch together in nine days\u2019 time, have been fitted together onto the dispenser that will carry them during their flight to orbit. The fuelling of the two satellites was completed last week, leaving them ready to be placed into launch configuration. They were carefully lowered into place [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Galileo_satellites_fitted_onto_dispenser_small.jpg",170,240,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Galileo_satellites_fitted_onto_dispenser_small-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Galileo_satellites_fitted_onto_dispenser_small.jpg",170,240,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Galileo_satellites_fitted_onto_dispenser_small.jpg",170,240,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Galileo_satellites_fitted_onto_dispenser_small.jpg",170,240,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Galileo_satellites_fitted_onto_dispenser_small.jpg",170,240,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Galileo_satellites_fitted_onto_dispenser_small.jpg",170,240,false],"ultp_layout_landscape_large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Galileo_satellites_fitted_onto_dispenser_small.jpg",170,240,false],"ultp_layout_landscape":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Galileo_satellites_fitted_onto_dispenser_small.jpg",170,240,false],"ultp_layout_portrait":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Galileo_satellites_fitted_onto_dispenser_small.jpg",170,240,false],"ultp_layout_square":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Galileo_satellites_fitted_onto_dispenser_small.jpg",170,240,false],"newspaper-x-single-post":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Galileo_satellites_fitted_onto_dispenser_small.jpg",170,240,false],"newspaper-x-recent-post-big":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Galileo_satellites_fitted_onto_dispenser_small.jpg",170,240,false],"newspaper-x-recent-post-list-image":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Galileo_satellites_fitted_onto_dispenser_small.jpg",46,65,false],"web-stories-poster-portrait":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Galileo_satellites_fitted_onto_dispenser_small.jpg",170,240,false],"web-stories-publisher-logo":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Galileo_satellites_fitted_onto_dispenser_small.jpg",68,96,false],"web-stories-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Galileo_satellites_fitted_onto_dispenser_small.jpg",150,212,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Amrita Tuladhar"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">News<\/a>","tag_info":"News","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3422","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=3422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}