{"id":3056,"date":"2026-09-02T11:08:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T11:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/2026\/09\/02\/flex-and-sentinel-3c-sealed-within-vega-c-fairing\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T11:08:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T11:08:00","slug":"flex-and-sentinel-3c-sealed-within-vega-c-fairing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/2026\/09\/02\/flex-and-sentinel-3c-sealed-within-vega-c-fairing\/","title":{"rendered":"FLEX and Sentinel-3C sealed within Vega-C fairing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2026\/09\/flex_and_sentinel-3c_being_sealed_from_view\/27447417-4-eng-GB\/FLEX_and_Sentinel-3C_being_sealed_from_view_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"FLEX and Sentinel-3C being sealed from view\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At Europe\u2019s Spaceport in French Guiana, preparations for one of the year\u2019s most anticipated Earth-observation launches are entering their final stages.<\/p>\n<p>FLEX and Copernicus Sentinel-3C have now been enclosed within the protective fairing of their Vega-C rocket, bringing the two satellites one step closer to their shared journey into space.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Europe\u2019s Spaceport in French Guiana, preparations for one of the year\u2019s most anticipated Earth-observation launches are entering their final stages. FLEX and Copernicus Sentinel-3C have now been enclosed within the protective fairing of their Vega-C rocket, bringing the two satellites one step closer to their shared journey into space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3056","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\/3056","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=3056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}