{"id":230683,"date":"2015-06-23T01:25:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T05:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"5446fcba7e4786997d8e0c55a3a7ec0b"},"modified":"2015-06-23T01:25:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T05:25:00","slug":"liftoff-of-vega-vv05-carrying-sentinel-2a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=230683","title":{"rendered":"Liftoff of Vega VV05 carrying 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\/06\/liftoff_of_vega_vv05_carrying_sentinel-2a5\/15470256-2-eng-GB\/Liftoff_of_Vega_VV05_carrying_Sentinel-2A_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"95\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: .1pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm;\">\nVega VV05, carrying Sentinel-2A, lifted off from Europe\u2019s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on 23 June 2015.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: .1pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm;\">\nSentinel-2 carries an innovative wide-swath, high-resolution multispectral imager with 13 spectral bands for a new perspective of our land and vegetation. The second in the two-satellite mission \u2013 Sentinel-2B \u2013 is being prepared for launch in 2016.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: .1pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: .1pt; margin-left: 0cm;\">\nFor more information on the mission, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Observing_the_Earth\/Copernicus\/Sentinel-2\">www.esa.int\/sentinel2<\/a><\/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\/06\/liftoff_of_vega_vv05_carrying_sentinel-2a5\/15470256-2-eng-GB\/Liftoff_of_Vega_VV05_carrying_Sentinel-2A_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"95\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: .1pt;margin-right: 0cm;margin-bottom: .1pt;margin-left: 0cm\">\nVega VV05, carrying Sentinel-2A, lifted off from Europe\u2019s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on 23 June 2015.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: .1pt;margin-right: 0cm;margin-bottom: .1pt;margin-left: 0cm\">\nSentinel-2 carries an innovative wide-swath, high-resolution multispectral imager with 13 spectral bands for a new perspective of our land and vegetation. The second in the two-satellite mission \u2013 Sentinel-2B \u2013 is being prepared for launch in 2016.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: .1pt;margin-right: 0cm;margin-bottom: .1pt;margin-left: 0cm\">\nFor more information on the mission, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Observing_the_Earth\/Copernicus\/Sentinel-2\">www.esa.int\/sentinel2<\/a><\/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-230683","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\/230683","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=230683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230683\/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=230683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=230683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=230683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}