{"id":10081,"date":"2019-06-27T13:26:48","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T09:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=10081"},"modified":"2019-06-27T13:26:48","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T09:26:48","slug":"uae-to-launch-falcon-eye-satellite-in-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2019\/06\/27\/uae-to-launch-falcon-eye-satellite-in-july\/","title":{"rendered":"UAE to launch &#8216;Falcon Eye&#8217; satellite in July"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United Arab Emirates will launch the &#8216;Falcon Eye 1&#8217; satellite into orbit on Saturday, 6th July, at the French Guiana Space Centre at 05:53 UAE time (01:53:03 GMT).<\/p>\n<p>Falcon Eye 1 will be the fourth reconnaissance satellite launched by the UAE, bringing the total number to ten satellites in orbit. The UAE plans to have 12 satellites in orbit by 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The UAE satellite was built by Airbus Defence and Space and Thales Alenia. Falcon Eye 1 feature a High-Resolution Imager, HiRI, imaging system with a ground resolution of 70 cm across a 20 km swath.<\/p>\n<p>The satellite weighs less than 1,500 kg and will be launched via a Vega rocket by Arianespace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Arab Emirates will launch the &#8216;Falcon Eye 1&#8217; satellite into orbit on Saturday, 6th July, at the French Guiana Space Centre at 05:53 UAE time (01:53:03 GMT). Falcon Eye 1 will be the fourth reconnaissance satellite launched by the UAE, bringing the total number to ten satellites in orbit. The UAE plans to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10082,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10083,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10081\/revisions\/10083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}