{"id":787442,"date":"2024-08-19T03:38:51","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T08:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=787442"},"modified":"2024-08-19T03:38:51","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T08:38:51","slug":"arctic-weather-satellite-and-%cf%86sat-2-head-for-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=787442","title":{"rendered":"Arctic Weather Satellite and \u03a6sat-2 head for orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"modal__tab-content--details\">\n<div class=\"modal__tab-description\">\n<p>ESA\u2019s\u00a0Arctic Weather Satellite\u00a0and\u00a0\u03a6sat-2 satellite\u00a0were lofted into orbit\u00a0on 16 August\u00a0at 20:56 CEST (11:56 local time) aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, US.<\/p>\n<p>ESA&#8217;s Arctic Weather Satellite is a prototype mission that aims to improve weather forecasts in the Arctic \u2013 a region that currently lacks data for accurate short-term forecasts. The satellite will build on existing Arctic monitoring satellites and will provide precise, short-term weather forecasts for the Arctic region.<\/p>\n<p>\u03a6sat-2, pronounced phisat-2, is a cubesat that will further demonstrate the benefits of using AI for innovative Earth observation. Measuring only 22 x 10 x 33 cm, this miniature satellite is equipped with a state-of-the-art multispectral camera and a powerful AI computer that analyses and processes imagery while in orbit.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Images\/2024\/08\/Arctic_Weather_Satellite_and_Phsat-2_head_for_orbit?rand=772187\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESA\u2019s\u00a0Arctic Weather Satellite\u00a0and\u00a0\u03a6sat-2 satellite\u00a0were lofted into orbit\u00a0on 16 August\u00a0at 20:56 CEST (11:56 local time) aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, US. ESA&#8217;s Arctic&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":787443,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-787442","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\/787442","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=787442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/787443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=787442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=787442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=787442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}