{"id":2269,"date":"2025-11-28T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/2025\/11\/28\/hydrognss-launch-highlights\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T21:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T21:00:00","slug":"hydrognss-launch-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/2025\/11\/28\/hydrognss-launch-highlights\/","title":{"rendered":"HydroGNSS launch highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2025\/11\/hydrognss_launch_highlights\/26978088-2-eng-GB\/HydroGNSS_launch_highlights_card_full.png\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n\tVideo:<br \/>\n\t\t\t00:02:51<\/p>\n<p>ESA\u2019s first Scout mission, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Applications\/Observing_the_Earth\/FutureEO\/HydroGNSS\">HydroGNSS<\/a>, was launched on 28 November 2025, marking a significant step in advancing global understanding of water availability and the effects of climate change on Earth\u2019s water cycle.<\/p>\n<p>The two twin HydroGNSS satellites were carried into orbit aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, US.<\/p>\n<p>Embracing the New Space concept, HydroGNSS is one of ESA\u2019s new\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Applications\/Observing_the_Earth\/FutureEO\/Scouts_ESA_s_agile_research_missions\" target=\"_top\">Scout<\/a>\u00a0missions being developed within the Earth Observation\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Applications\/Observing_the_Earth\/FutureEO\" target=\"_top\">FutureEO<\/a>\u00a0programme.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video: 00:02:51 ESA\u2019s first Scout mission, HydroGNSS, was launched on 28 November 2025, marking a significant step in advancing global understanding of water availability and the effects of climate change on Earth\u2019s water cycle. The two twin HydroGNSS satellites were carried into orbit aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Vandenberg Space Force Base [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2269","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\/2269","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=2269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}