{"id":35304,"date":"2011-05-15T15:43:45","date_gmt":"2011-05-15T15:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/new-soyuz-launch-site\/"},"modified":"2011-05-15T15:43:45","modified_gmt":"2011-05-15T15:43:45","slug":"new-soyuz-launch-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/new-soyuz-launch-site.php","title":{"rendered":"New Soyuz Launch Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/9c1b4_esa050411.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/9c1b4_esa050411.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"476\" height=\"318\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><p>Testing the new Soyuz launch site in French Guiana.  Click for larger. Credit: ESA - S. Corvaja, 2011<\/p><\/div><p>&nbsp;<\/p><p>The Soyuz spacecraft will soon be launching from Europe&rsquo;s Spaceport in French Guiana.<\/p><p>The facilities are almost complete and final testing began on April 29, 2011 with a simulated launch.&nbsp; The simulation is designed to ensure the facilities work as expected and allow teams to train under realistic conditions.<\/p><p>The image shows the vehicle as it was transferred from the preparation building to the launch area and moved to the vertical position.&nbsp; A mobile gantry was then rolled out to the pad and the upper stage was hoisted atop the launcher.<\/p><p>The first launch will be in the third quarter of 2011.<\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/esaCP\/SEMYBDZ57NG_index_0.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more about it and see lots more images here.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Testing the new Soyuz launch site in French Guiana. Click for larger. Credit: ESA - S. Corvaja, 2011&nbsp;The Soyuz spacecraft will soon be launching from Europe&rsquo;s Spaceport in French Guiana.The facilities are almost complete and final testing began on April &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/new-soyuz-launch-site.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35304"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}