MetOp-SG
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MetOp-SG (Meteorological Operational Satellite – Second Generation) is a series of six meteorological satellites developed by European Space Agency and EUMETSAT to be launched from 2025 to 2039.
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Vinony's link graph records 444 inbound references to MetOp-SG, and connects out to European Space Agency, Meteosat and Living Planet Programme.
It is catalogued under topics including 2020s in spaceflight, Earth observation satellites of the European Space Agency and European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites.
Vinony links it to 5 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- weather satellite
- Operator
- EUMETSAT
- Follows
- MetOp
- Developer
- European Space Agency
- Manufacturer
- Airbus Defence and Space
- Image
- MetOp Second Generation A-type spacecraft model (ESA511182).png
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- type of orbit
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- carries scientific instrument
- weather radar
- Commons category
- MetOp-SG
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Development
- Satellites
- MetOp Second Generation A instruments
- MetOp Second Generation B instruments
- Operations
- References
- External links
MetOp-SG (Meteorological Operational Satellite – Second Generation) is a series of six meteorological satellites developed by European Space Agency and EUMETSAT to be launched from 2025 to 2039.
== Development == In May 2014 during the ILA Berlin Air Show, in the presence of German chancellor Angela Merkel, ESA, EUMETSAT and Airbus Defence and Space signed the first documents for the development of the second generation of MetOp satellites. On 16 October 2014 a contract was signed with Airbus Defence and Space for the construction of the satellites, worth in total for six spacecraft (on average each). In December 2014 additional contracts were signed for Ice Cloud Imagers to be used on the B-series satellites and three microwave sounder instruments.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “MetOp-SG” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.