{"id":696113,"date":"2021-07-15T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=696113"},"modified":"2021-07-15T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T08:00:00","slug":"ers-1-first-image-solving-the-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=696113","title":{"rendered":"ERS-1 first image: solving the mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/ERS-1_first_image_solving_the_mystery_card_full.png\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n\tVideo:<br \/>\n\t\t\t00:23:29<\/p>\n<p>\nESA\u2019s first Earth observation mission dedicated to understanding our planet, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Applications\/Observing_the_Earth\/ERS_at_a_glance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">European Remote Sensing satellite (ERS-1)<\/a>, was launched into orbit on 17 July 1991. At the time, it was the most sophisticated Earth observation spacecraft developed and launched by Europe.<br \/>\nThirty years ago, as the team went through the launch and early-orbit phase, the first synthetic aperture radar images were awaited in Kiruna and Fucino. Featuring video footage taken in 1991, the team involved tells the story of the anxious moments and important breakthroughs they made as the first images arrived. Get an insider view into the problem-solving moments from inside one of ESA&#8217;s processing rooms.<br \/>\nFeatures interviews with:<br \/>\nStephen Coulson, Former Earth Observation Applications Engineer<br \/>\nMark Doherty, Former Head of ERS Product Control Service<br \/>Henri Laur Former Head of Processing of ERS-1 SAR data<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Videos\/2021\/07\/ERS-1_first_image_solving_the_mystery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ERS-1 first image: solving the mystery<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video: 00:23:29 ESA\u2019s first Earth observation mission dedicated to understanding our planet, the European Remote Sensing satellite (ERS-1), was launched into orbit on 17 July 1991. At the time, it&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":696114,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-696113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ESA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696113","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=696113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/696114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=696113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=696113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=696113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}