{"id":788085,"date":"2024-08-30T03:42:51","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T08:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=788085"},"modified":"2024-08-30T03:42:51","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T08:42:51","slug":"esa-sentinel-2c-ready-for-liftoff-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=788085","title":{"rendered":"ESA &#8211; Sentinel-2C: ready for liftoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"modal__tab-content--details\">\n<div class=\"modal__tab-description\">\n<p>Sentinel-2C is ready for launch! The new satellite will soon join its Copernicus Sentinel-2 family in orbit \u2013 where it will continue to provide detailed views of Earth\u2019s land and coastal waters.<\/p>\n<p>The mission is based on a constellation of two identical satellites: Sentinel-2A and Sentinel-2B. The constellation was originally designed to monitor land surfaces \u2013 but its scope has since expanded.<\/p>\n<p>It now covers a wide range of applications including deforestation, water quality, monitoring natural disasters, methane emissions and much more.<\/p>\n<p>Sentinel-2C, once in orbit, will replace the Sentinel-2A unit \u2013 prolonging the life of the Sentinel-2 mission \u2013 ensuring a continuous supply of data for Copernicus, the Earth observation component of the EU Space Programme.<\/p>\n<p>Tune in to ESA WebTV on 4 September from 03:30 CEST to watch the satellite soar into space on the last Vega rocket to be launched from Europe\u2019s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><i>Access the related broadcast quality footage<\/i>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t<label style=\"display: block; font-size: 0.9em; color: #8197A6; margin: 3rem 0 -1rem 0;\">Embed code<\/label><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<textarea rows=\"4\" cols=\"60\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sentinel-2C: ready for liftoff\" width=\"1110\" height=\"624\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RKh4mcI65oM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/textarea><\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Videos\/2024\/08\/Sentinel-2C_ready_for_liftoff?rand=772187\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sentinel-2C is ready for launch! The new satellite will soon join its Copernicus Sentinel-2 family in orbit \u2013 where it will continue to provide detailed views of Earth\u2019s land and&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":788084,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-788085","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\/788085","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=788085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/788084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=788085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=788085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=788085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}