{"id":240551,"date":"2016-04-15T07:44:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T11:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=095d1337872cda0ae1e4507ed6dfbfa2"},"modified":"2016-04-15T07:44:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-15T11:44:00","slug":"sentinel-1b-satellite-lowered-onto-fregat-upper-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=240551","title":{"rendered":"Sentinel-1B satellite lowered onto Fregat upper stage"},"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\/04\/sentinel-1b_satellite_lowered_onto_fregat_upper_stage7\/15940501-2-eng-GB\/Sentinel-1B_satellite_lowered_onto_Fregat_upper_stage_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nSentinel-1B satellite lowered onto Fregat upper stage&nbsp;in preparation for the 22 April 2016 launch.&nbsp;This stage of the launch campaign took place on Thursday 14 April in the S3B preparation building of the Guiana Space Centre.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOnce in orbit, it will provide radar images of Earth for Europe\u2019s Copernicus environmental monitoring programme.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWith the Sentinel-1 mission designed as a two-satellite constellation, Sentinel-1B will join its identical twin, Sentinel-1A, which was launched two years ago.<\/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\/04\/sentinel-1b_satellite_lowered_onto_fregat_upper_stage7\/15940501-2-eng-GB\/Sentinel-1B_satellite_lowered_onto_Fregat_upper_stage_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nSentinel-1B satellite lowered onto Fregat upper stage&nbsp;in preparation for the 22 April 2016 launch.&nbsp;This stage of the launch campaign took place on Thursday 14 April in the S3B preparation building of the Guiana Space Centre.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOnce in orbit, it will provide radar images of Earth for Europe&rsquo;s Copernicus environmental monitoring programme.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWith the Sentinel-1 mission designed as a two-satellite constellation, Sentinel-1B will join its identical twin, Sentinel-1A, which was launched two years ago.<\/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-240551","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\/240551","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=240551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240552,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240551\/revisions\/240552"}],"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=240551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=240551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=240551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}