{"id":285852,"date":"2017-03-06T09:40:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T13:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=1b033e0a1010fd948fa8c515926045ad"},"modified":"2017-03-06T09:40:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T13:40:00","slug":"vega-vv09-in-its-mobile-gantry-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=285852","title":{"rendered":"Vega VV09 in its mobile gantry"},"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\/vega_vv09_in_its_mobile_gantry\/16840946-2-eng-GB\/Vega_VV09_in_its_mobile_gantry_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nVega VV09 carrying Sentinel-2B in its mobile gantry, at Europe&#8217;s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on 6 March 2017.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nLiftoff is set for on 7 March at 01:49 GMT (02:49 CET; 22:49 local time on 6 March).\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.<\/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\/vega_vv09_in_its_mobile_gantry\/16840946-2-eng-GB\/Vega_VV09_in_its_mobile_gantry_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nVega VV09 carrying Sentinel-2B in its mobile gantry, at Europe&#8217;s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on 6 March 2017.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nLiftoff is set for on 7 March at 01:49 GMT (02:49 CET; 22:49 local time on 6 March).\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.<\/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-285852","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\/285852","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=285852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285853,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285852\/revisions\/285853"}],"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=285852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=285852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=285852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}