{"id":2647,"date":"2026-04-08T13:19:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T13:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/2026\/04\/08\/rose-l-radar-unfolds-in-crucial-ground-test\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T13:19:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T13:19:00","slug":"rose-l-radar-unfolds-in-crucial-ground-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/2026\/04\/08\/rose-l-radar-unfolds-in-crucial-ground-test\/","title":{"rendered":"ROSE-L radar unfolds in crucial ground test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2026\/04\/rose-l_radar_wing_deployment_test\/27194112-1-eng-GB\/ROSE-L_radar_wing_deployment_test_card_full.gif\" alt=\"ROSE-L radar wing deployment test\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An important milestone has been reached in developing the upcoming Copernicus Radar Observing System for Europe in L-band satellite, known as ROSE-L. Engineers have tested the deployment of a structural model of its huge radar antenna \u2013 a key step towards preparing this new satellite for launch and its mission to monitor Earth\u2019s land, oceans and ice from orbit.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An important milestone has been reached in developing the upcoming Copernicus Radar Observing System for Europe in L-band satellite, known as ROSE-L. Engineers have tested the deployment of a structural model of its huge radar antenna \u2013 a key step towards preparing this new satellite for launch and its mission to monitor Earth\u2019s land, oceans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2648,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2647","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\/2647","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=2647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}