{"id":801685,"date":"2026-04-15T02:30:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T07:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=801685"},"modified":"2026-04-15T02:30:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T07:30:29","slug":"esa-rose-l-radar-deployment-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=801685","title":{"rendered":"ESA &#8211; ROSE-L radar deployment test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"modal__tab-content--details\">\n<div class=\"modal__tab-description\">\n<p>An important milestone has been reached in developing the upcoming Copernicus Radar Observing System for Europe in L-band satellite, known as ROSE-L. Engineers have tested the deployment of a structural model of its huge radar antenna \u2013 a key step towards preparing this new satellite for launch and its mission to monitor Earth\u2019s land, oceans and ice from orbit.<\/p>\n<p>One of the six Copernicus Sentinel Expansion missions, ROSE-L, whose development is led by Thales Alenia Space as the mission\u2019s prime contractor, will help strengthen Europe\u2019s Earth-observation capabilities, complementing existing missions such as Sentinel-1 while expanding monitoring services for land management, food security, emergency response, and climate science.<\/p>\n<p>The video shows how the deployment of ROSE-L\u2019s synthetic aperture radar was recently tested at Airbus Defence and Space\u2019 facilities in Friedrichshafen, Germany.<\/p>\n<p><b>Read full story<\/b>:\u00a0ROSE-L radar unfolds in crucial ground test<\/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=\"ROSE-L radar deployment test\" width=\"1110\" height=\"624\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0q2bgaPP43c?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\/2026\/04\/ROSE-L_radar_deployment_test?rand=772187\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An important milestone has been reached in developing the upcoming Copernicus Radar Observing System for Europe in L-band satellite, known as ROSE-L. Engineers have tested the deployment of a structural&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":801686,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-801685","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\/801685","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=801685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/801686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=801685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=801685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=801685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}