{"id":3081,"date":"2026-09-11T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/2026\/09\/11\/a-team-of-teams-like-never-before-rehearsing-a-unique-launch-at-esa-mission-control\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T08:00:00","slug":"a-team-of-teams-like-never-before-rehearsing-a-unique-launch-at-esa-mission-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/2026\/09\/11\/a-team-of-teams-like-never-before-rehearsing-a-unique-launch-at-esa-mission-control\/","title":{"rendered":"A team of teams like never before: rehearsing a unique launch at ESA mission control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2026\/09\/teams_at_esoc_during_esa_s_flex_and_copernicus_sentinel-3c_launch_and_early_orbit_leop_simulations\/27464737-3-eng-GB\/Teams_at_ESOC_during_ESA_s_FLEX_and_Copernicus_Sentinel-3C_launch_and_early_orbit_LEOP_simulations_card_full.png\" alt=\"Teams at ESOC during ESA\u2019s FLEX and Copernicus Sentinel-3C launch and early orbit (LEOP) simulations\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On 15 September, two spacecraft will leave Earth together aboard the same launcher from Europe\u2019s spaceport in Kourou: FLEX, ESA\u2019s photosynthesis mission, and Sentinel-3C, Copernicus\u2019 newest satellite monitoring Earth\u2019s oceans, land, ice and atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>At ESA\u2019s European Space Operations Centre (ESOC), two independent mission teams are preparing to operate the spacecraft in parallel in a closely coordinated effort. As launch approaches, they are rehearsing side by side to prepare not only for their own missions, but also for the moments when the two operations intersect.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 15 September, two spacecraft will leave Earth together aboard the same launcher from Europe\u2019s spaceport in Kourou: FLEX, ESA\u2019s photosynthesis mission, and Sentinel-3C, Copernicus\u2019 newest satellite monitoring Earth\u2019s oceans, land, ice and atmosphere. At ESA\u2019s European Space Operations Centre (ESOC), two independent mission teams are preparing to operate the spacecraft in parallel in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3081","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\/3081","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=3081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}