{"id":76,"date":"2017-01-08T23:06:58","date_gmt":"2017-01-08T22:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.lesia.obspm.fr\/picsat\/?page_id=76"},"modified":"2017-01-15T18:23:02","modified_gmt":"2017-01-15T17:23:02","slug":"mission","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"\/picsat-news\/mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To ensure we are operational for the upcoming planetary transit in the summer of 2017, PicSat\u2019s launch window must be earlier. The orbit restraint at this time is a sun-synchronous orbit (polar 98 \u00b0 inclination) at an altitude of less than 620km.<\/p>\n<dl class=\"spip_document_2272 spip_documents spip_documents_center spip_documents_image\">\n<dt><a class=\"cboxElement hasbox\" title=\"24h PicSat ground track\" href=\"http:\/\/lesia.obspm.fr\/IMG\/png\/trace.png\" rel=\"portfolio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/lesia.obspm.fr\/local\/cache-vignettes\/L400xH231\/trace-b732a-f9ead.png\" alt=\"24h PicSat ground track\" width=\"551\" height=\"318\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<dt class=\"spip_doc_titre\"><strong>24h PicSat ground track<\/strong><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"spip_doc_descriptif\">Scientific measurements take place between the \u2018star visible\u2019 (yellow square) and the \u2018star lost\u2019 (green circle)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p>These orbital parameters provide us 1 hour of \u03b2 Pic observations for each orbit, for a total time of 96 min, allowing continuous monitoring of the star. The transit, whose duration is of the order of a few hours, will not escape our instrument.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To ensure we are operational for the upcoming planetary transit in the summer of 2017, PicSat\u2019s launch window must be<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"\/picsat-news\/mission\/\" title=\"Read Orbit\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":40,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-76","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/picsat-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"\/picsat-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"\/picsat-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/picsat-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/picsat-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"\/picsat-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238,"href":"\/picsat-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/76\/revisions\/238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/picsat-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}