{"id":2699,"date":"2026-05-01T08:32:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T08:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/2026\/05\/01\/sentinel-1d-goes-live-a-milestone-for-europes-radar-mission\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T08:32:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T08:32:00","slug":"sentinel-1d-goes-live-a-milestone-for-europes-radar-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/2026\/05\/01\/sentinel-1d-goes-live-a-milestone-for-europes-radar-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Sentinel-1D goes live: a milestone for Europe\u2019s radar mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2024\/10\/the_sentinel-1_mission\/26396793-1-eng-GB\/The_Sentinel-1_mission_card_full.png\" alt=\"The Sentinel-1 mission\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Copernicus Sentinel-1D satellite, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Applications\/Observing_the_Earth\/Copernicus\/Sentinel-1\/Sentinel-1D_reaches_orbit_on_Ariane_6\" target=\"_blank\">launched last November<\/a>, is now fully operational after successfully completing its critical in-orbit commissioning phase.<\/p>\n<p>With all four Sentinel-1 satellites having now been deployed, this achievement marks a major milestone for this flagship radar mission \u2013 a journey that began more than a decade ago and that has helped pave the way for the future of Earth observation.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Copernicus Sentinel-1D satellite, launched last November, is now fully operational after successfully completing its critical in-orbit commissioning phase. With all four Sentinel-1 satellites having now been deployed, this achievement marks a major milestone for this flagship radar mission \u2013 a journey that began more than a decade ago and that has helped pave the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2699","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\/2699","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=2699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}