{"id":1500,"date":"2025-07-24T08:56:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T08:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/2025\/07\/24\/first-metop-second-generation-satellite-fuelled\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T08:56:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T08:56:00","slug":"first-metop-second-generation-satellite-fuelled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/2025\/07\/24\/first-metop-second-generation-satellite-fuelled\/","title":{"rendered":"First MetOp Second Generation satellite fuelled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2025\/07\/fuelling_metop-sg-a1\/26810650-1-eng-GB\/Fuelling_MetOp-SG-A1_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"Fuelling MetOp-SG-A1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The journey to launch is picking up pace for Europe\u2019s MetOp Second Generation weather satellite \u2013 which hosts the Copernicus Sentinel-5 as part of its instrument package. Specialists at Europe\u2019s Spaceport in Kourou have completed the critical and hazardous task of fuelling the satellite, marking a major milestone in its final preparations for liftoff.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The journey to launch is picking up pace for Europe\u2019s MetOp Second Generation weather satellite \u2013 which hosts the Copernicus Sentinel-5 as part of its instrument package. Specialists at Europe\u2019s Spaceport in Kourou have completed the critical and hazardous task of fuelling the satellite, marking a major milestone in its final preparations for liftoff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1500","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\/1500","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=1500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}