{"id":75859,"date":"2014-10-28T20:35:57","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T12:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/esa-european-commission-finalize-copernicus-budget\/"},"modified":"2014-10-28T20:35:57","modified_gmt":"2014-10-28T12:35:57","slug":"esa-european-commission-finalize-copernicus-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/esa-european-commission-finalize-copernicus-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"ESA, European Commission Finalize Copernicus Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 10-28-2014] The <b>European Space Agency <\/b>(ESA) and the European Commission have established the budget for the Copernicus environmental monitoring program. The European Union\u2019s seven-year Multiannual Financial Framework provides nearly $5.5 billion for Copernicus, of which approximately $4 billion will be allocated for the space component.<\/p>\n<p>The Sentinel satellites comprise the backbone of Copernicus. The first satellite, Sentinel 1A, launched on April 3 and entered operations this fall after finishing calibration and data quality testing.<\/p>\n<p>The ESA-European Commission agreement covers the operating costs of the Sentinel satellites until mid-2021 along with the manufacture of next generation satellites. ESA has been tasked with research and development for future Copernicus satellites beyond 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 10-28-2014] The European Space Agency (ESA) and the European Commission have established the budget for the Copernicus environmental monitoring program. The European Union\u2019s seven-year Multiannual Financial Framework provides nearly $5.5 billion for Copernicus, of which approximately $4 billion will be allocated for the space component. The Sentinel satellites comprise the backbone of Copernicus. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75859"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}