{"id":3090,"date":"2026-09-14T07:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T07:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/2026\/09\/14\/flex-and-sentinel-3c-ready-for-liftoff-on-vega-c\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T07:20:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T07:20:00","slug":"flex-and-sentinel-3c-ready-for-liftoff-on-vega-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/2026\/09\/14\/flex-and-sentinel-3c-ready-for-liftoff-on-vega-c\/","title":{"rendered":"FLEX and Sentinel-3C ready for liftoff on Vega-C"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2026\/09\/flex_and_sentinel-3c_ready_for_launch\/27459766-1-eng-GB\/FLEX_and_Sentinel-3C_ready_for_launch_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"FLEX and Sentinel-3C ready for launch\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Two Earth observation satellites \u2013 ESA\u2019s Fluorescence Explorer (FLEX) satellite, and the third satellite for the Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission \u2013 are encapsulated inside the nose cone of a Vega-C launcher and are awaiting liftoff at Europe\u2019s Spaceport in French Guiana.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Earth observation satellites \u2013 ESA\u2019s Fluorescence Explorer (FLEX) satellite, and the third satellite for the Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission \u2013 are encapsulated inside the nose cone of a Vega-C launcher and are awaiting liftoff at Europe\u2019s Spaceport in French Guiana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3090","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\/3090","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=3090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}