{"id":3071,"date":"2026-09-09T09:56:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T09:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/2026\/09\/09\/watch-flex-and-sentinel-3c-launch-on-vega-c\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T09:56:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T09:56:00","slug":"watch-flex-and-sentinel-3c-launch-on-vega-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/2026\/09\/09\/watch-flex-and-sentinel-3c-launch-on-vega-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: FLEX and Sentinel-3C launch on Vega-C"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2026\/09\/vega-c_fairing_opens_to_reveal_sentinel-3c_and_flex\/27460042-1-eng-GB\/Vega-C_fairing_opens_to_reveal_Sentinel-3C_and_FLEX_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"Vega-C fairing opens to reveal Sentinel-3C and FLEX\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The European Space Agency\u2019s FLEX satellite and the Copernicus Sentinel-3C satellite are scheduled to launch together aboard a Vega-C rocket on 15 September at 03:21 CEST (14 September at 22:21 local time). Watch the VV30 launch live from Europe\u2019s Spaceport in French Guiana, with coverage starting at 02:50 CEST.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Space Agency\u2019s FLEX satellite and the Copernicus Sentinel-3C satellite are scheduled to launch together aboard a Vega-C rocket on 15 September at 03:21 CEST (14 September at 22:21 local time). Watch the VV30 launch live from Europe\u2019s Spaceport in French Guiana, with coverage starting at 02:50 CEST.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3071","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\/3071","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=3071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}