{"id":1385,"date":"2025-06-19T07:18:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T07:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/2025\/06\/19\/first-metop-sg-and-sentinel-5-arrive-at-launch-site\/"},"modified":"2025-06-19T07:18:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T07:18:00","slug":"first-metop-sg-and-sentinel-5-arrive-at-launch-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/2025\/06\/19\/first-metop-sg-and-sentinel-5-arrive-at-launch-site\/","title":{"rendered":"First MetOp-SG and Sentinel-5 arrive at launch site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2025\/06\/metop-sg-a1_out_of_its_shipping_container_and_standing_proud\/26755144-1-eng-GB\/MetOp-SG-A1_out_of_its_shipping_container_and_standing_proud_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"MetOp-SG-A1 out of its shipping container and standing proud\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Europe will soon be taking another leap forward in its weather forecasting capacity as the first MetOp Second Generation, MetOp-SG-A1, satellite arrives safely at Europe\u2019s Spaceport in French Guiana, marking a pivotal moment on the road to launch.<\/p>\n<p>This new polar-orbiting weather satellite also carries the Copernicus Sentinel-5 instrument to deliver daily global data on air pollutants and other atmospheric trace gases.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Europe will soon be taking another leap forward in its weather forecasting capacity as the first MetOp Second Generation, MetOp-SG-A1, satellite arrives safely at Europe\u2019s Spaceport in French Guiana, marking a pivotal moment on the road to launch. This new polar-orbiting weather satellite also carries the Copernicus Sentinel-5 instrument to deliver daily global data on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}