ESA’s team supporting MTG-I2 during LEOP

The Meteosat Third Generation Imager 2 (MTG-I2) was launched on an Ariane 6 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana on 27 August. The mission’s combined observations will significantly increase the quality, quantity and frequency of weather and environmental data available to European users, supporting improved weather forecasting, severe-weather nowcasting, numerical weather prediction and climate monitoring across Europe and North Africa.

The launch and early orbit (LEOP) phase is one of the most critical phases of satellite operations. MTG-I2’s LEOP was supported by a project support team of 40 experts based in the Telespazio Mission Control Centre in Fucino, with teams from Thales Alenia Space, OHB and ESA, supporting Telespazio and Eumetsat. Specialists in areas including flight dynamics, propulsion, attitude and orbit control, system and operations engineering and other disciplines worked in shifts, providing continuous support throughout the mission.

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