ESA - Living Planet Programme - MetOp - Facts & figures

MetOp at a glance

Overview Why we need MetOp

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History

Satellite

About the spacecraft Payload Module Service Module

Instruments

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Launch

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Mission operations

Operations Orbit

The team

Peter Edwards – ESA MetOp Project Manager Eva Oriol-Pibernat - ESA MetOp Mission Manager Marc Cohen - EUMETSAT MetOp Programme Manager Mike Mignogno, NOAA's Polar Programme Manager Dieter Klaes – EPS Programme Scientist Industrial partners

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Developed by ESA for Eumetsat, MetOp-A is the first in a series of three Eumetsat Polar System (EPS) satellites. MetOp-A was launched on 19 October 2006 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

Credits: ESA/AOES Medialab

Last update: 28 June 2006

In depth

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