{"id":767699,"date":"2023-10-04T07:07:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T11:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=767699"},"modified":"2023-10-04T07:07:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T11:07:00","slug":"big-earth-imager-to-be-tested-on-small-vega-cubesat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=767699","title":{"rendered":"Big Earth imager to be tested on small Vega CubeSat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Proba-V_Companion_CubeSat_card_full.png\" alt=\"Proba-V Companion CubeSat\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A briefcase-sized CubeSat being flown on Europe\u2019s next <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Enabling_Support\/Space_Transportation\/Launch_vehicles\/Vega_launcher\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Vega<\/a>\u00a0launcher this week will gather 340 km wide views of Earth\u2019s vegetation growth, employing a spectral imager originally designed for ESA\u2019s decade-in-flight Proba-V.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Enabling_Support\/Space_Engineering_Technology\/Big_Earth_imager_to_be_tested_on_small_Vega_CubeSat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Big Earth imager to be tested on small Vega CubeSat<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space Engineering &amp; Technology&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A briefcase-sized CubeSat being flown on Europe\u2019s next Vega\u00a0launcher this week will gather 340 km wide views of Earth\u2019s vegetation growth, employing a spectral imager originally designed for ESA\u2019s decade-in-flight&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":767700,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-767699","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\/767699","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=767699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/767700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=767699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=767699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=767699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}