MetOp-SG-B animated patch

MetOp Second Generation will deliver data for weather forecasting and climate prediction for over 20 years.

The mission comprises three successive pairs of satellites, so six satellites in all. The number of instruments that were needed to achieve the mission’s ambitious requirements meant that it was impossible to board all of them on a single satellite. Therefore, eleven instruments are split between two satellite types, called A and B. An A-type and a B-type orbit Earth as a pair.

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