{"id":357527,"date":"2024-04-29T17:14:48","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T15:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2024\/04\/29\/satelliti-esa-galileo-spazio\/"},"modified":"2024-05-06T14:42:16","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T12:42:16","slug":"esa-two-new-satellites-into-orbit-under-the-galileo-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/2024\/04\/29\/esa-two-new-satellites-into-orbit-under-the-galileo-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Esa, two new satellites into orbit under the Galileo program"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels \u2013 Today (April 29), ESA, the European Space Agency, has communicated<\/a> to have successfully launched two new satellites that will join those already in orbit for the Galileo<\/strong> program. The satellites took off for Earth orbit yesterday (April 28) at 2:34 a.m. from the Kennedy Space Center (Florida) thanks to a Falcon 9 rocket from Elon Musk’s SpaceX<\/strong> company.<\/p>\n

The new launch brings to 30 the number of satellites around the Earth in the European Union’s Galileo space program<\/strong>. Eight more are expected to be launched soon, thus completing the Galileo constellation. However, the European space program doesn’t stop here: the launch of second-generation satellites via the ESA-built Ariane 6 rocket is already scheduled for 2026.<\/p>\n

Galileo is the most accurate satellite navigation system<\/strong>, serving more than four billion smartphone users worldwide since it became operational in 2016. Thanks to its accuracy, Galileo is making a difference in the rail, maritime, agricultural, and service sectors. The European Commission estimates that 10 per cent of the EU’s annual GDP depends on satellite navigation<\/strong>, a percentage set to increase. From wayfinding to supporting search and rescue activities, Galileo is an integral part of the daily lives of European citizens and beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thanks to a rocket by Elon Musk, there are now 30 satellites allowing precise location on Earth. Eight more launches planned soon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7870,"featured_media":216113,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"0","show_view_counter":"0","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25710],"tags":[27732,27731,27733,26513],"class_list":["post-357527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-digital-en","tag-esa-en","tag-agency-space-en-en","tag-galileoand","tag-satellites-in"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7870"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357527"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":357535,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357527\/revisions\/357535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}