{"id":240843,"date":"2016-04-28T10:47:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T14:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=a306c928ed355b82c9a28c0c6a243538"},"modified":"2016-04-28T10:47:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T14:47:00","slug":"sentinel-1bs-first-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=240843","title":{"rendered":"Sentinel-1B\u2019s first image"},"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_s_first_image\/15966790-2-eng-GB\/Sentinel-1B_s_first_image_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nSentinel-1B\u2019s first data strip stretches 600 km from 80\u00b0N degrees through the Barents Sea. The image, which shows the Norwegian Svalbard archipelago on the left, was captured on 28 April 2016 at 05:37 GMT (07:37 CEST) \u2013 just two hours after the satellite\u2019s radar was switched on. Sentinel-1B lifted off on a Soyuz rocket from Europe\u2019s Spaceport in French Guiana on 25 April at 21:02 GMT (23:02 CEST). It joins its twin, Sentinel-1A, to provide more \u2018radar vision\u2019 for Europe\u2019s environmental Copernicus programme.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nRead article: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Observing_the_Earth\/Copernicus\/Sentinel-1\/Sentinel-1B_delivers\" >Sentinel-1B delivers<\/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\/04\/sentinel-1b_s_first_image\/15966790-2-eng-GB\/Sentinel-1B_s_first_image_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nSentinel-1B&rsquo;s first data strip stretches 600 km from 80&deg;N degrees through the Barents Sea. The image, which shows the Norwegian Svalbard archipelago on the left, was captured on 28 April 2016 at 05:37 GMT (07:37 CEST) &ndash; just two hours after the satellite&rsquo;s radar was switched on. Sentinel-1B lifted off on a Soyuz rocket from Europe&rsquo;s Spaceport in French Guiana on 25 April at 21:02 GMT (23:02 CEST). It joins its twin, Sentinel-1A, to provide more &lsquo;radar vision&rsquo; for Europe&rsquo;s environmental Copernicus programme.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nRead article: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Observing_the_Earth\/Copernicus\/Sentinel-1\/Sentinel-1B_delivers\" target=\"_blank\">Sentinel-1B delivers<\/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-240843","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\/240843","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=240843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240844,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240843\/revisions\/240844"}],"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=240843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=240843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=240843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}