{"id":375343,"date":"2017-09-19T02:31:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T06:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=3598fd003f86072d3ad30f0181fa324e"},"modified":"2017-09-19T02:31:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-19T06:31:00","slug":"introducing-sentinel-5p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=375343","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Sentinel-5P"},"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\/09\/introducing_sentinel-5p\/17136897-3-eng-GB\/Introducing_Sentinel-5P_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThe preparations of ESA\u2019s latest Earth observation satellite Sentinel-5P, also known as Sentinel-5 Precursor, are finished and the satellite has been shipped to the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia for launch in October 2017.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSentinel-5P will ensure continued data gathering on Earth\u2019s atmosphere and is the intermediary satellite to fill the gap between the past generation of atmospheric monitoring satellites and the future generation of Sentinel-4 and 5 which will be launched early in the next decade. Sentinel-5P is part of Copernicus,&nbsp;the world\u2019s largest environmental monitoring programme which is operated by&nbsp;the European Commission.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis video contains interviews with :\n<\/p>\n<p>\nJosef Aschbacher, Director of <i>Earth <\/i>observation programmes, ESA (in English and German)\n<\/p>\n<p>\nKevin McMullan Sentinel-5P Project Manager, ESA (in English)\n<\/p>\n<p>\nClaus Zehner Sentinel-5P Mission Manager, ESA (in English)<\/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\/09\/introducing_sentinel-5p\/17136897-3-eng-GB\/Introducing_Sentinel-5P_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nThe preparations of ESA&rsquo;s latest Earth observation satellite Sentinel-5P, also known as Sentinel-5 Precursor, are finished and the satellite has been shipped to the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia for launch in October 2017.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSentinel-5P will ensure continued data gathering on Earth&rsquo;s atmosphere and is the intermediary satellite to fill the gap between the past generation of atmospheric monitoring satellites and the future generation of Sentinel-4 and 5 which will be launched early in the next decade. Sentinel-5P is part of Copernicus,&nbsp;the world&rsquo;s largest environmental monitoring programme which is operated by&nbsp;the European Commission.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis video contains interviews with :\n<\/p>\n<p>\nJosef Aschbacher, Director of <i>Earth <\/i>observation programmes, ESA (in English and German)\n<\/p>\n<p>\nKevin McMullan Sentinel-5P Project Manager, ESA (in English)\n<\/p>\n<p>\nClaus Zehner Sentinel-5P Mission Manager, ESA (in English)<\/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-375343","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\/375343","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=375343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":375344,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375343\/revisions\/375344"}],"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=375343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=375343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=375343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}