{"id":230687,"date":"2015-06-22T21:49:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T01:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"52164abb63c45c74e7bec5560e544e03"},"modified":"2015-06-22T21:49:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T01:49:00","slug":"fully-assembled-vega-vv05-carrying-sentinel-2a-ready-for-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=230687","title":{"rendered":"Fully assembled Vega VV05, carrying Sentinel-2A, ready for launch"},"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\/fully_assembled_vega_vv05_carrying_sentinel-2a_ready_for_launch3\/15469699-2-eng-GB\/Fully_assembled_Vega_VV05_carrying_Sentinel-2A_ready_for_launch_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"95\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nSentinel-2 and Vega VV05, after the mobile gantry withdrawal, waiting to be launched&nbsp;at Europe\u2019s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on 23 June 2015.\n<\/p>\n<p>\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>\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\/fully_assembled_vega_vv05_carrying_sentinel-2a_ready_for_launch3\/15469699-2-eng-GB\/Fully_assembled_Vega_VV05_carrying_Sentinel-2A_ready_for_launch_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"95\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nSentinel-2 and Vega VV05, after the mobile gantry withdrawal, waiting to be launched&nbsp;at Europe\u2019s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on 23 June 2015.\n<\/p>\n<p>\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>\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-230687","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\/230687","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=230687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230687\/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=230687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=230687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=230687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}