{"id":227719,"date":"2015-04-10T04:56:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-10T08:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"0c5f7a7a4cd612ef740b13c08d05ba6b"},"modified":"2015-04-10T04:56:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-10T08:56:00","slug":"packing-sentinel-2a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=227719","title":{"rendered":"Packing Sentinel-2A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2015\/04\/packing_sentinel-2a\/15353278-1-eng-GB\/Packing_Sentinel-2A_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nAfter six months of rigorous testing at IABG\u2019s facilities in Germany, the Sentinel-2A satellite is placed in the container that will keep it safe during transit to Europe\u2019s Spaceport near Kourou in French Guiana.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe satellite will have one final test, a \u2018leak test\u2019, in the container to ensure its propulsion system is tight before departure from Munich on 20 April. Once unloaded and unpacked in Kourou, the satellite will be prepared for liftoff on a Vega rocket on 11 June at 22:52 local time, 12 June at 03:52 CEST.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOffering \u2018colour vision\u2019 for the European Commission\u2019s environmental monitoring Copernicus programme, Sentinel-2A combines high-resolution and novel multispectral capabilities \u2013 a first for ESA.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWith a 290 km-wide coverage path and frequent revisits, Sentinel-2 will deliver views of Earth\u2019s vegetation and changing lands in unprecedented detail and accuracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2015\/04\/packing_sentinel-2a\/15353278-1-eng-GB\/Packing_Sentinel-2A_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nAfter six months of rigorous testing at IABG\u2019s facilities in Germany, the Sentinel-2A satellite is placed in the container that will keep it safe during transit to Europe\u2019s Spaceport near Kourou in French Guiana.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe satellite will have one final test, a \u2018leak test\u2019, in the container to ensure its propulsion system is tight before departure from Munich on 20 April. Once unloaded and unpacked in Kourou, the satellite will be prepared for liftoff on a Vega rocket on 11 June at 22:52 local time, 12 June at 03:52 CEST.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOffering \u2018colour vision\u2019 for the European Commission\u2019s environmental monitoring Copernicus programme, Sentinel-2A combines high-resolution and novel multispectral capabilities \u2013 a first for ESA.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWith a 290 km-wide coverage path and frequent revisits, Sentinel-2 will deliver views of Earth\u2019s vegetation and changing lands in unprecedented detail and accuracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=227719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=227719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=227719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=227719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}