{"id":278267,"date":"2017-02-22T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=5172cc98aba893b4ac18fe02bfefc757"},"modified":"2017-02-22T05:30:00","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T09:30:00","slug":"sentinel-2b-soon-to-be-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=278267","title":{"rendered":"Sentinel-2B, soon to be launched"},"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\/2017\/02\/sentinel-2b_soon_to_be_launched\/16825620-1-eng-GB\/Sentinel-2B_soon_to_be_launched_small.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThe preparations of a new Copernicus Earth observation satellite, Sentinel-2B, are finished and the satellite will soon be carried into orbit by ESA&#8217;s own lightweight launcher Vega, departing from Europe&#8217;s spaceport in Kourou.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSentinel-2B is set to play a key role in the Copernicus programme, the world\u2019s largest environmental monitoring programme which is headed by the European Commission in partnership with ESA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2017\/02\/sentinel-2b_soon_to_be_launched\/16825620-1-eng-GB\/Sentinel-2B_soon_to_be_launched_small.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nThe preparations of a new Copernicus Earth observation satellite, Sentinel-2B, are finished and the satellite will soon be carried into orbit by ESA&#8217;s own lightweight launcher Vega, departing from Europe&#8217;s spaceport in Kourou.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSentinel-2B is set to play a key role in the Copernicus programme, the world&rsquo;s largest environmental monitoring programme which is headed by the European Commission in partnership with ESA.<\/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-278267","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\/278267","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=278267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278268,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278267\/revisions\/278268"}],"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=278267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=278267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=278267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}