{"id":240684,"date":"2016-04-07T10:51:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T14:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=93f8a8aef0a89538ed296459331f97ee"},"modified":"2016-04-07T10:51:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-07T14:51:00","slug":"sentinel-1b-on-soyuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=240684","title":{"rendered":"Sentinel-1B on Soyuz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2016\/04\/sentinel-1b_on_soyuz\/15925818-3-eng-GB\/Sentinel-1B_on_Soyuz_small.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nSentinel-1B will be launched on a Soyuz rocket from Europe\u2019s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana on 22 April 2016. It will join its identical twin, Sentinel-1A, in orbit to provide more radar views of Earth for Europe\u2019s Copernicus environmental monitoring effort. Delivering vital information for numerous operational services, from monitoring ice in the polar oceans to tracking land subsidence, the Sentinel-1 mission plays a key role in Copernicus \u2013 the largest civil Earth-observation programme ever conceived. With the two satellites orbiting 180\u00b0 apart, global coverage and data delivery are optimised for Copernicus services.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe launch also provides the opportunity to take three <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Education\/CubeSats_-_Fly_Your_Satellite\">CubeSats<\/a> into orbit. These are nanosatellites built by students as part of ESA\u2019s educational Fly Your Satellite programme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2016\/04\/sentinel-1b_on_soyuz\/15925818-3-eng-GB\/Sentinel-1B_on_Soyuz_small.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nSentinel-1B will be launched on a Soyuz rocket from Europe&rsquo;s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana on 22 April 2016. It will join its identical twin, Sentinel-1A, in orbit to provide more radar views of Earth for Europe&rsquo;s Copernicus environmental monitoring effort. Delivering vital information for numerous operational services, from monitoring ice in the polar oceans to tracking land subsidence, the Sentinel-1 mission plays a key role in Copernicus &ndash; the largest civil Earth-observation programme ever conceived. With the two satellites orbiting 180&deg; apart, global coverage and data delivery are optimised for Copernicus services.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe launch also provides the opportunity to take three <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Education\/CubeSats_-_Fly_Your_Satellite\">CubeSats<\/a> into orbit. These are nanosatellites built by students as part of ESA&rsquo;s educational Fly Your Satellite programme.<\/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-240684","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\/240684","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=240684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240687,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240684\/revisions\/240687"}],"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=240684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=240684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=240684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}