{"id":240682,"date":"2016-04-20T03:25:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T07:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=0e458728e4ad6b778d3ce3d9591712a8"},"modified":"2016-04-20T03:25:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T07:25:00","slug":"sentinel-1b-heads-to-launch-tower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=240682","title":{"rendered":"Sentinel-1B heads to launch tower"},"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_heads_to_launch_tower\/15947240-2-eng-GB\/Sentinel-1B_heads_to_launch_tower_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nSoyuz VS14 upper composite transferred to the launch pad in preparation for the launch of Sentinel-1B on 22 April 2016.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Soyuz VS14 mission launching from the Guiana Space Center carries the Sentinel-1B satellite for the European Commission\u2019s Copernicus Earth Observation Program. In addition, the rocket carries the <a href=\"https:\/\/microscope.cnes.fr\/en\/MICROSCOPE\/index.htm\">MicroSCOPE Satellite<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Education\/CubeSats_-_Fly_Your_Satellite\">three CubeSats<\/a> to orbit.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSentinel-1B will provide radar images of Earth for Europe\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Observing_the_Earth\/Copernicus\">Copernicus<\/a> environmental monitoring programme. With 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_heads_to_launch_tower\/15947240-2-eng-GB\/Sentinel-1B_heads_to_launch_tower_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nSoyuz VS14 upper composite transferred to the launch pad in preparation for the launch of Sentinel-1B on 22 April 2016.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Soyuz VS14 mission launching from the Guiana Space Center carries the Sentinel-1B satellite for the European Commission&rsquo;s Copernicus Earth Observation Program. In addition, the rocket carries the <a href=\"https:\/\/microscope.cnes.fr\/en\/MICROSCOPE\/index.htm\">MicroSCOPE Satellite<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Education\/CubeSats_-_Fly_Your_Satellite\">three CubeSats<\/a> to orbit.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSentinel-1B will provide radar images of Earth for Europe&rsquo;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Observing_the_Earth\/Copernicus\">Copernicus<\/a> environmental monitoring programme. With 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-240682","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\/240682","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=240682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240683,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240682\/revisions\/240683"}],"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=240682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=240682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=240682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}