{"id":239536,"date":"2016-02-12T12:20:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-12T16:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=b1b7839d66958c851abad7c31ab0ff46"},"modified":"2016-02-12T12:20:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T16:20:00","slug":"sentinel-3a-upper-composite-integrated-on-top-of-the-rockot-launcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=239536","title":{"rendered":"Sentinel-3A upper composite integrated on top of the Rockot launcher"},"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\/2016\/02\/sentinel-3a_upper_composite_integrated_on_top_of_the_rockot_launcher\/15811102-2-eng-GB\/Sentinel-3A_upper_composite_integrated_on_top_of_the_Rockot_launcher_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nSentinel-3A upper composite integrated on top of the Rockot launcher, on 12 February 2016, at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOnce safely in orbit and fully commissioned, this new satellite will begin its mission to map Earth\u2019s oceans and land surfaces with its powerful optical and radar systems. The Sentinel-3 mission is set to play a key role in the world\u2019s largest environmental monitoring programme \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Observing_the_Earth\/Copernicus\/Overview3\">Copernicus<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2016\/02\/sentinel-3a_upper_composite_integrated_on_top_of_the_rockot_launcher\/15811102-2-eng-GB\/Sentinel-3A_upper_composite_integrated_on_top_of_the_Rockot_launcher_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nSentinel-3A upper composite integrated on top of the Rockot launcher, on 12 February 2016, at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOnce safely in orbit and fully commissioned, this new satellite will begin its mission to map Earth&rsquo;s oceans and land surfaces with its powerful optical and radar systems. The Sentinel-3 mission is set to play a key role in the world&rsquo;s largest environmental monitoring programme &ndash; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Observing_the_Earth\/Copernicus\/Overview3\">Copernicus<\/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-239536","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\/239536","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=239536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239537,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239536\/revisions\/239537"}],"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=239536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=239536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=239536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}