{"id":76513,"date":"2014-08-22T23:41:38","date_gmt":"2014-08-22T15:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/airbus-built-sentinel-2a-satellite-enters-environmental-testing\/"},"modified":"2014-08-22T23:41:38","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T15:41:38","slug":"airbus-built-sentinel-2a-satellite-enters-environmental-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/airbus-built-sentinel-2a-satellite-enters-environmental-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"Airbus-Built Sentinel 2A Satellite Enters Environmental Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 08-22-2014] <b>Airbus Defence and Space <\/b>has delivered the Sentinel 2A Earth Observation (EO) satellite to <b>IABG<\/b>, near Munich, Germany, for environmental testing. Engineers will evaluate the 1.2-ton spacecraft\u2019s readiness for space prior to its launch in the first half of 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Sentinel 2A is one of the <b>European Space Agency<\/b>\u2019s (ESA\u2019s) satellites for the Copernicus program, capable of delivering optical images ranging from visible-near infrared to short-wave infrared. The satellites use 13 spectral bands with resolutions of 10, 20 or 60 meters, and a swath width of 290-km. An identical satellite, Sentinel 2B, is slated to launch in 2016. Together the two satellites will be able to image all of Earth\u2019s landmass in five days.<\/p>\n<p>Copernicus is a joint environmental project between ESA and the European Commission. The satellites primary purposes will be use studying land use and management, soil sealing, forest monitoring, and natural disasters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 08-22-2014] Airbus Defence and Space has delivered the Sentinel 2A Earth Observation (EO) satellite to IABG, near Munich, Germany, for environmental testing. Engineers will evaluate the 1.2-ton spacecraft\u2019s readiness for space prior to its launch in the first half of 2015. Sentinel 2A is one of the European Space Agency\u2019s (ESA\u2019s) satellites for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72104,"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-76513","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\/76513"}],"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=76513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}