{"id":1489,"date":"2025-07-21T06:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T06:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/2025\/07\/21\/another-milestone-for-the-future-of-european-weather-observation\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T06:15:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T06:15:00","slug":"another-milestone-for-the-future-of-european-weather-observation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/2025\/07\/21\/another-milestone-for-the-future-of-european-weather-observation\/","title":{"rendered":"Another milestone for the future of European weather observation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2025\/07\/teamwork_for_leop_at_fucino_for_meteosat_third_generation_sounder_satellite\/26801558-2-eng-GB\/Teamwork_for_LEOP_at_Fucino_for_Meteosat_Third_Generation_sounder_satellite_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"Teamwork for LEOP at Fucino for Meteosat Third Generation sounder satellite\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Meteosat Third Generation sounder satellite, hosting the Copernicus Sentinel-4 mission, has reached its orbit and has been placed under the control of Eumetsat. It is now ready to start commissioning before beginning operations to monitor Earth\u2019s atmosphere from a distance of 36 000 km.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Meteosat Third Generation sounder satellite, hosting the Copernicus Sentinel-4 mission, has reached its orbit and has been placed under the control of Eumetsat. It is now ready to start commissioning before beginning operations to monitor Earth\u2019s atmosphere from a distance of 36 000 km.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1489","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\/1489","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=1489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}