{"id":285357,"date":"2017-03-09T05:35:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T09:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=7e044084150f1bf27b7554eb66ac429a"},"modified":"2017-03-09T05:35:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T09:35:00","slug":"michelle-collins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=285357","title":{"rendered":"Michelle Collins"},"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\/2017\/03\/michelle_collins\/16846693-1-eng-GB\/Michelle_Collins_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nSpacecraft operations manager Michelle Collins working in the Main Control Room during the launch of Sentinel-2B.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe 1100 kg satellite was carried into orbit on a Vega rocket from Europe\u2019s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana at 01:49 GMT (02:49 CET) on 7 March.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAbout an hour later, telemetry links and attitude control were established by controllers at ESA\u2019s operations centre in Darmstadt, Germany, allowing activation of Sentinel\u2019s systems to begin.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe mission control team has been working in shifts around the clock since launch through today to shepherd the satellite through the critical \u2018early orbit\u2019 phase.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<b>More information<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Operations\/Sentinel-2_operations\" title=\"Sentinel-2 operations\" >Sentinel-2 operations<\/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\/2017\/03\/michelle_collins\/16846693-1-eng-GB\/Michelle_Collins_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nSpacecraft operations manager Michelle Collins working in the Main Control Room during the launch of Sentinel-2B.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe 1100 kg satellite was carried into orbit on a Vega rocket from Europe&rsquo;s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana at 01:49 GMT (02:49 CET) on 7 March.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAbout an hour later, telemetry links and attitude control were established by controllers at ESA&rsquo;s operations centre in Darmstadt, Germany, allowing activation of Sentinel&rsquo;s systems to begin.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe mission control team has been working in shifts around the clock since launch through today to shepherd the satellite through the critical &lsquo;early orbit&rsquo; phase.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<b>More information<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Operations\/Sentinel-2_operations\" title=\"Sentinel-2 operations\" target=\"_blank\">Sentinel-2 operations<\/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-285357","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\/285357","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=285357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285358,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285357\/revisions\/285358"}],"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=285357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=285357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=285357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}