With the launch of MetOp now set for 7 October at 18:28 CEST, the MetOp satellite is out of storage and preparations for launch are well underway at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

MetOp, the first in the new European series of operational meteorological satellites in polar orbit, is now scheduled for launch on 7 October 2006. The new date was established last week following ...

Metop-B, the European polar orbiting weather satellite, designed and manufactured by Astrium, is now ready to launch from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. From its polar orbit 817 kilometres ...

Clearing the way for the launch of the Meteorological Operational satellite (MetOp), Mr Dordain, the Director General of ESA and Dr Prahm, Director General of EUMETSAT met at ESA headquarters in ...

Europe has delayed again the flight of its most sophisticated weather and climate satellite - the Metop platform. The spacecraft was set to go into orbit on a Soyuz rocket from Kazakhstan, but the ...

The Metop-C spacecraft took off from French Guiana late on Tuesday local time, and will circle the globe, gathering data that will feed into daily forecasts. The satellite was procured at the same ...

The launch of Metop, Europe's most sophisticated weather and climate satellite, has been delayed again. The spacecraft was set to go into orbit from Kazakhstan on Wednesday, but the launch had to be ...

Today, they were joined by the first of a brand new generation of meteorological satellites. MetOp is designed to provide a closer view of the atmosphere from low earth orbit, delivering data that ...

Paris - The European weather satellite MetOp-A, stuck on the Russian launch pad in Kazakhstan since July, should be launched on Thursday, launch operator Starsem said. The 4.1-ton satellite was to ...

The current MetOp series has three identical satellites. Launched in 2006, MetOp-A is Europe’s first polar-orbiting mission dedicated to operational meteorology, and will be followed by MetOp-B ...

PARIS, November 7. /TASS/. Russia’s Soyuz-ST carrier rocket has put a European meteorological satellite, Metop-C, into the designated orbit on Wednesday. The launch took place at 03:48 Moscow ...