{"id":220372,"date":"2025-08-19T04:02:41","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T09:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/flex-instrument-meets-its-satellite"},"modified":"2025-08-19T04:02:41","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T09:02:41","slug":"flex-instrument-meets-its-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/flex-instrument-meets-its-satellite","title":{"rendered":"FLEX instrument meets its satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/flex-instrument-meets-its-satellite.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The development of ESA\u2019s Earth Explorer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Applications\/Observing_the_Earth\/FutureEO\/FLEX\" target=\"_blank\">FLEX<\/a> mission has recently passed a significant milestone: the mission\u2019s all-important, single instrument has been joined to its satellite platform.<\/p>\n<p>This delicate operation was carried out by spacecraft engineers at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thalesaleniaspace.com\/en\" target=\"_blank\">Thales Alenia Space<\/a> in Cannes, France, following the delivery of the instrument from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leonardo.com\/en\/home\" target=\"_blank\">Leonardo<\/a> in Florence, Italy.<\/p>\n<p>FLEX\u2019s fluorescence imaging spectrometer is called FLORIS for short and designed to map vegetation fluorescence around the globe and quantify photosynthetic activity and plant stress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The development of ESA\u2019s Earth Explorer FLEX mission has recently passed a significant milestone: the mission\u2019s all-important, single instrument has been joined to its satellite platform. This delicate operation was carried out by spacecraft engineers at Thales Alenia Space in Cannes, France, following the delivery of the instrument from Leonardo in Florence, Italy. FLEX\u2019s fluorescence [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1694,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}