{"id":285854,"date":"2017-03-06T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=7e4f04744167baa8cdf6e065f5a3ca55"},"modified":"2017-03-06T05:30:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T09:30:00","slug":"kourou-french-guiana-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=285854","title":{"rendered":"Kourou, French Guiana"},"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\/kourou_french_guiana\/16839301-1-eng-GB\/Kourou_French_Guiana_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThe Copernicus Sentinel-2A satellite takes us over Kourou in French Guiana, with the main town of the same name visible in the lower right.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Sentinel-2B satellite is currently poised on top of a Vega rocket on the launch pad (upper left) about 15 km northwest of the main town, and is set for launch on 7 March 2017 at 01:49 GMT (02:49 CET).\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe launch site at Kourou lies just over 500 km north of the equator and often sits under clouds. While cloudy skies may not prevent a launch, it does affect our view of the pad.&nbsp; The more recent passes over this area by Sentinel-2A were cloudy; this image was captured on 20 August 2016.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOnce Sentinel-2B is in orbit, the two satellites will cover the entire planet between latitudes 84\u00b0S and 84\u00b0N every five days, increasing the chance of cloud-free imagery.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWatch the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Observing_the_Earth\/Copernicus\/Sentinel-2\/Watch_live_Sentinel-2B_launch\">Sentinel-2B launch<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFollow the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Observing_the_Earth\/Copernicus\/Sentinel-2\/Sentinel2Go_launch_event_at_ESOC\">launch event at ESA\u2019s mission control<\/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\/kourou_french_guiana\/16839301-1-eng-GB\/Kourou_French_Guiana_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nThe Copernicus Sentinel-2A satellite takes us over Kourou in French Guiana, with the main town of the same name visible in the lower right.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Sentinel-2B satellite is currently poised on top of a Vega rocket on the launch pad (upper left) about 15 km northwest of the main town, and is set for launch on 7 March 2017 at 01:49 GMT (02:49 CET).\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe launch site at Kourou lies just over 500 km north of the equator and often sits under clouds. While cloudy skies may not prevent a launch, it does affect our view of the pad.&nbsp; The more recent passes over this area by Sentinel-2A were cloudy; this image was captured on 20 August 2016.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOnce Sentinel-2B is in orbit, the two satellites will cover the entire planet between latitudes 84&deg;S and 84&deg;N every five days, increasing the chance of cloud-free imagery.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWatch the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Observing_the_Earth\/Copernicus\/Sentinel-2\/Watch_live_Sentinel-2B_launch\">Sentinel-2B launch<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFollow the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Observing_the_Earth\/Copernicus\/Sentinel-2\/Sentinel2Go_launch_event_at_ESOC\">launch event at ESA&rsquo;s mission control<\/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-285854","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\/285854","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=285854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285855,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285854\/revisions\/285855"}],"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=285854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=285854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=285854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}