{"id":780191,"date":"2024-04-04T10:02:51","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T15:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=780191"},"modified":"2024-04-04T10:02:51","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T15:02:51","slug":"arctic-weather-satellite-undergoing-final-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=780191","title":{"rendered":"Arctic Weather Satellite undergoing final tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"modal__tab-content--details\">\n<div class=\"modal__tab-description\">\n<p>ESA\u2019s Arctic Weather Satellite undergoing its final tests in the cleanroom at OHB\u2019s facilities in Stockholm, Sweden, before it is packed up and shipped to the Vandenberg launch site in California in the US.<\/p>\n<p>As its name suggests, the\u00a0Arctic Weather Satellite\u00a0mission is expected to improve weather forecasts in the Arctic \u2013 a region that currently lacks data for accurate short-term forecasts.\u00a0Embracing the concept of New Space, the satellite was developed and built on a very tight schedule of just 36 months and on a tight budget.\u00a0It is the forerunner of a potential constellation of satellites, called EPS-Sterna, that ESA would build for Eumetsat if the prototype Arctic Weather Satellite works well.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Images\/2024\/04\/Arctic_Weather_Satellite_undergoing_final_tests?rand=772187\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESA\u2019s Arctic Weather Satellite undergoing its final tests in the cleanroom at OHB\u2019s facilities in Stockholm, Sweden, before it is packed up and shipped to the Vandenberg launch site in&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":780192,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-780191","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\/780191","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=780191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/780192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=780191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=780191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=780191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}