{"id":81980,"date":"2018-08-22T20:22:25","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T03:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/lift-off-for-british-aeolus-weather-satellite-which-promises-to-end-michael-fish-style-gaffes"},"modified":"2018-08-22T20:22:25","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T03:22:25","slug":"lift-off-for-british-aeolus-weather-satellite-which-promises-to-end-michael-fish-style-gaffes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/lift-off-for-british-aeolus-weather-satellite-which-promises-to-end-michael-fish-style-gaffes","title":{"rendered":"Lift off for British Aeolus weather satellite which promises to end Michael Fish style gaffes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lift-off-for-british-aeolus-weather-satellite-which-promises-to-end-michael-fish-style-gaffes.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The world just became a little bit safer tonight as Europe\u2019s groundbreaking wind-monitoring satellite finally blasted into orbit \u2014 ridding the world of Michael Fish moments.<\/p>\n<p>At exactly 10.20 BST the Jupiter mission control centre in French Guiana, South America, gave the final green light for lift-off following a nail-biting week which saw the launch delayed by 24 hours- ironically because of strong winds.<\/p>\n<p>But with the name Aeolus, it was never going to be plain sailing for the European Space Agency\u2019s latest Earth Observation satellite.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2018\/08\/22\/lift-british-aeolus-weather-satellite-promises-end-michael-fish\/\">https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2018\/08\/22\/lift-british-aeo...hael-fish\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world just became a little bit safer tonight as Europe\u2019s groundbreaking wind-monitoring satellite finally blasted into orbit \u2014 ridding the world of Michael Fish moments. At exactly 10.20 BST the Jupiter mission control centre in French Guiana, South America, gave the final green light for lift-off following a nail-biting week which saw the launch [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81980","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=81980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}