{"id":64029,"date":"2025-08-13T13:17:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T13:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/64029\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T13:17:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T13:17:08","slug":"new-airbus-satellite-launched-for-climate-and-weather-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/64029\/","title":{"rendered":"New Airbus satellite launched for climate and weather analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The satellites work in pairs, with one providing atmospheric sounding and imaging data, and the other offering microwave imaging and radar observations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The satellites included a propulsion system which allowed them to begin a descent into the sea after their mission was complete, reducing space debris.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Martin Gittins, head of propulsion programme at Airbus Stevenage, said more than 100 engineers have worked on the project in the Hertfordshire town alone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has worked on this project with his team since 2016.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;You can&#8217;t get much more exciting than seeing a rocket launch and your payload being delivered safely into space.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Yes, it&#8217;s a long programme, but you have to balance that with the excitement of the launch.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The satellites work in pairs, with one providing atmospheric sounding and imaging data, and the other offering microwave&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-64029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}