{"id":1573,"date":"2025-08-06T12:54:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T12:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/2025\/08\/06\/watch-metop-sg-a1-and-sentinel-5-launch\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T12:54:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T12:54:00","slug":"watch-metop-sg-a1-and-sentinel-5-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/2025\/08\/06\/watch-metop-sg-a1-and-sentinel-5-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: MetOp-SG-A1 and Sentinel-5 launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2025\/07\/metop_second_generation_a-type_satellite\/26807625-1-eng-GB\/MetOp_Second_Generation_A-type_satellite_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"MetOp Second Generation A-type satellite\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Europe\u2019s first MetOp Second Generation, MetOp-SG-A1, weather satellite \u2013 which hosts Copernicus Sentinel-5 as part of its instrument package \u2013 is set for liftoff on an Ariane 6 rocket from Europe\u2019s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on 13 August 2025 at 02:37 CEST (12 August 21:37 Kourou time).<\/p>\n<p>Watch live on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/ESA_Web_TV\">ESA Web TV One<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Europe\u2019s first MetOp Second Generation, MetOp-SG-A1, weather satellite \u2013 which hosts Copernicus Sentinel-5 as part of its instrument package \u2013 is set for liftoff on an Ariane 6 rocket from Europe\u2019s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on 13 August 2025 at 02:37 CEST (12 August 21:37 Kourou time). Watch live on ESA Web TV One.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1573","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\/1573","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=1573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}