{"id":3199,"date":"2026-11-04T09:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T09:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/2026\/11\/04\/time-to-wake-up-metop-sg-b1-weather-satellite\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T09:10:00","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T09:10:00","slug":"time-to-wake-up-metop-sg-b1-weather-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/2026\/11\/04\/time-to-wake-up-metop-sg-b1-weather-satellite\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to wake up MetOp-SG-B1 weather satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2026\/11\/removing_metop-sg-b1_from_its_transport_container\/27598342-1-eng-GB\/Removing_MetOp-SG-B1_from_its_transport_container_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"Removing MetOp-SG-B1 from its transport container\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Following a short period in storage after arriving at Europe\u2019s Spaceport in French Guiana, the MetOp Second Generation-B1 satellite has been transferred to a cleanroom and removed from its transport container. The team is now preparing to reactivate this \u2018sleeping beauty, and begin the final checks and preparations ahead of its launch, planned towards the end of the year.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following a short period in storage after arriving at Europe\u2019s Spaceport in French Guiana, the MetOp Second Generation-B1 satellite has been transferred to a cleanroom and removed from its transport container. The team is now preparing to reactivate this \u2018sleeping beauty, and begin the final checks and preparations ahead of its launch, planned towards the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3199","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\/3199","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=3199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copernicus.gis.is\/homepage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}