{"id":112424,"date":"2020-09-03T07:39:27","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T14:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/vega-rocket-launching-on-return-to-flight-mission-tonight-watch-it-live"},"modified":"2020-09-05T05:46:56","modified_gmt":"2020-09-05T12:46:56","slug":"vega-rocket-launching-on-return-to-flight-mission-tonight-watch-it-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/vega-rocket-launching-on-return-to-flight-mission-tonight-watch-it-live","title":{"rendered":"Vega rocket launching on return-to-flight mission tonight: Watch it live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/vega-rocket-launching-on-return-to-flight-mission-tonight-watch-it-live2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Arianespace\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/40602-vega-rocket.html\">Vega rocket<\/a> is scheduled to fly tonight (Sept. 2) for the first time in more than a year.<\/p>\n<p>The four-stage Vega last launched in July 2019, and that mission did not go well. The 98-foot-tall (30 meters) rocket\u2019s second-stage motor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/vega-rocket-launch-failure-cause-identified.html\">suffered an anomaly<\/a>, resulting in the loss of the Vega and its payload, the United Arab Emirates\u2019 Falcon Eye 1 Earth-observation satellite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arianespace\u2019s Vega rocket is scheduled to fly tonight (Sept. 2) for the first time in more than a year. The four-stage Vega last launched in July 2019, and that mission did not go well. The 98-foot-tall (30 meters) rocket\u2019s second-stage motor suffered an anomaly, resulting in the loss of the Vega and its payload, the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112543,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112424\/revisions\/112543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}