{"id":791796,"date":"2024-12-05T23:50:01","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T04:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=791796"},"modified":"2024-12-05T23:50:01","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T04:50:01","slug":"vega-c-with-sentinel-1c-on-the-launch-pad-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=791796","title":{"rendered":"Vega-C with Sentinel-1C on the launch pad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"modal__tab-content--details\">\n<div class=\"modal__tab-description\">\n<p>View of Vega-C rocket, flight VV25, looking up on the launch pad at Europe&#8217;s Spaceport in French Guiana, 4 December 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Sentinel-1C is the third\u00a0Sentinel-1\u00a0satellite to be launched as part of Europe\u2019s Copernicus programme. It will continue the critical task of delivering radar imagery for a wide range of services, applications and science \u2013 all of which benefit society.<\/p>\n<p>Vega-C is a single-body rocket nearly 35 m high with that weighs 210 tonnes on the launch pad. Vega-C can launch about 2300 kg in a reference 700 km-polar orbit. Using a new range of payload carriers, Vega-C can accommodate a mix of cargo shapes and sizes, ranging from CubeSats to a large single payload.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Images\/2024\/12\/Vega-C_with_Sentinel-1C_on_the_launch_pad?rand=772187\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>View of Vega-C rocket, flight VV25, looking up on the launch pad at Europe&#8217;s Spaceport in French Guiana, 4 December 2024. Sentinel-1C is the third\u00a0Sentinel-1\u00a0satellite to be launched as part&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":791797,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-791796","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\/791796","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=791796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/791797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=791796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=791796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=791796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}