{"id":1551,"date":"2025-08-05T08:41:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T08:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/2025\/08\/05\/first-metop-sg-satellite-sealed-within-ariane-6-fairing\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T08:41:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T08:41:00","slug":"first-metop-sg-satellite-sealed-within-ariane-6-fairing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/2025\/08\/05\/first-metop-sg-satellite-sealed-within-ariane-6-fairing\/","title":{"rendered":"First MetOp-SG satellite sealed within Ariane 6 fairing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2025\/08\/encapsulating_metop-sg-a1_satellite_in_ariane_6_fairing\/26827029-1-eng-GB\/Encapsulating_MetOp-SG-A1_satellite_in_Ariane_6_fairing_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"Encapsulating MetOp-SG-A1 satellite in Ariane 6 fairing\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As preparations to launch Europe\u2019s first MetOp Second Generation, MetOp-SG-A1, satellite continue on track, the team at Europe\u2019s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, has bid a heartfelt farewell to this precious satellite as it was sealed from view within the Ariane 6 rocket\u2019s fairing.<\/p>\n<p>This all-new weather satellite, which hosts the first Copernicus Sentinel-5 instrument, is set to take to the skies on 13 August at 02:37 CEST (12 August 21:37 Kourou time).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As preparations to launch Europe\u2019s first MetOp Second Generation, MetOp-SG-A1, satellite continue on track, the team at Europe\u2019s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, has bid a heartfelt farewell to this precious satellite as it was sealed from view within the Ariane 6 rocket\u2019s fairing. This all-new weather satellite, which hosts the first Copernicus Sentinel-5 instrument, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1551","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\/1551","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=1551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}