{"id":243595,"date":"2016-11-14T10:43:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T14:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=9c646dede9b4aa0c38e8dd904b3f6bd3"},"modified":"2016-11-14T10:43:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-14T14:43:00","slug":"sentinel-2b-satellite-at-esas-site-in-the-netherlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=243595","title":{"rendered":"Sentinel-2B satellite at ESA\u2019s site in the Netherlands"},"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\/11\/sentinel-2b_satellite_at_esa_s_site_in_the_netherlands5\/16498321-2-eng-GB\/Sentinel-2B_satellite_at_ESA_s_site_in_the_Netherlands_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"95\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nSentinel-2B satellite at ESA\u2019s site in the Netherlands, on 14 November 2016, before being packed up and shipped to French Guiana for its spring launch.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOffering \u2018colour vision\u2019 for Europe\u2019s environmental monitoring Copernicus programme, Sentinel-2 combines high-resolution and novel multispectral capabilities to monitor Earth\u2019s changing lands in unprecedented detail and accuracy.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSentinel-2 is designed as a two-satellite constellation: Sentinel-2A and -2B. Sentinel-2A was launched on 23 June 2015 and has been providing routine imagery for the EU Copernicus Land Monitoring Service, among others. Once Sentinel-2B is launched and operational, the constellation will offer a global revisit every five days.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nInformation from this mission is helping to improve agricultural practices, monitor the world\u2019s forest, detect pollution in lakes and coastal waters, and contribute to disaster mapping, to name a few.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe satellite was built by an industrial consortium led by prime contractor Airbus Defence and Space in Friedrichshafen, Germany.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSentinel-2B will be launched in spring 2017 on a Vega rocket from Europe\u2019s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.<\/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\/11\/sentinel-2b_satellite_at_esa_s_site_in_the_netherlands5\/16498321-2-eng-GB\/Sentinel-2B_satellite_at_ESA_s_site_in_the_Netherlands_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"95\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nSentinel-2B satellite at ESA&rsquo;s site in the Netherlands, on 14 November 2016, before being packed up and shipped to French Guiana for its spring launch.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOffering &lsquo;colour vision&rsquo; for Europe&rsquo;s environmental monitoring Copernicus programme, Sentinel-2 combines high-resolution and novel multispectral capabilities to monitor Earth&rsquo;s changing lands in unprecedented detail and accuracy.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSentinel-2 is designed as a two-satellite constellation: Sentinel-2A and -2B. Sentinel-2A was launched on 23 June 2015 and has been providing routine imagery for the EU Copernicus Land Monitoring Service, among others. Once Sentinel-2B is launched and operational, the constellation will offer a global revisit every five days.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nInformation from this mission is helping to improve agricultural practices, monitor the world&rsquo;s forest, detect pollution in lakes and coastal waters, and contribute to disaster mapping, to name a few.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe satellite was built by an industrial consortium led by prime contractor Airbus Defence and Space in Friedrichshafen, Germany.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSentinel-2B will be launched in spring 2017 on a Vega rocket from Europe&rsquo;s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.<\/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-243595","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\/243595","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=243595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243596,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243595\/revisions\/243596"}],"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=243595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=243595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=243595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}