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MetOp A, B, & C are te rst European polar orbiting satellites dedicated to operational meteorology.
Designed and developed by Astrium for the European Space Agency (ESA) and the European
Organisation for te Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT), tese satellites provide
meteorological data for te morning service, to complement te data collected by te US National
Oceanic and Atmosperic Administration (NOAA) satellites, wic cover te afternoon orbit. From
their polar orbit, at a much lower altitude than the other European geostationary meteorological
satellites, te MetOp satellites are ideally located to gater ig resolution Eart Observation information,
as well as accurate atmosperic data.
Te MetOp A satel lite was launced in October 2006, and declared operational on 15th May 2007.
Launc of MetOp B will take place in 2012 and MetOp C in 2017, at ve year intervals, so as to ensurete continuity of operational service over a period of about 15 years.
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For more information please contact:
Jean-Paul Gardelle
MetOp Project Manager
Eart Observation, Navigation & Science Division
Astrium sAtellites
Toulouse
France
PhONE: +33 (0) 5 62 19 69 93
EMAIL: [email protected]
www.astrium.eads.net
Customer European Space Agency and EUMETSAT
Mission Meteorological
Spacecraft Characteristics
Dimensions 6.6 x 6.3 x 5.0 metres (deployed conguration witout solar array)
Launch Mass 4100 kg (at launc)
Power 3800W (End of Life)
Design Lifetime 5 years
Orbit Near-polar sun-syncronous, Mean altitude 830km
Local solar time 09.30, descending node, 29-day repeat cycle
Payload Characteristics
Number of Instruments 12
Instrument Mass 900 kg
Instrument Power 950 W
Instrument Data Rate 2600 Kbps
Instruments
Advanced Very hig Resolution Radiometer (AVhRR) Imaging Radiometer, 6 cannels (0.6-12m)
hig-resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder (hIRS) Sounder, 19 infrared cannels (3.8-15) 1 visible cannel
Advanced Microwave Sounding Units (AMSU-A1&A2) Microwave sounder, 15 cannels (23-90Gz)
Microwave humidity Sounder (MhS) Microwave sounder, 5 cannels (89-183Gz)
Advanced Data Collection System (A-DCS) UhF receiver and signal processor
Infrared Atmosperic Sounding Interferometer (IASI) Infrared Micelson interferometer (3.6-15)
Advanced Scatterometer (ASCAT) Pulsed radar in C-band
Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment-2 (GOME) Nadir-viewing UV and visible spectrometer
GNSS Receiver for Atmosperic Sounding (GRAS) Radio occultation receiver
Searc and Rescue Monitor (S&R) VhF/UhF transponder and signal processor
Space Environment Monitor (SEM) Multi-cannel carged particles spectrometer
The Mission
MetOp A, B & C will provide global coverage of te Eart wit detailed observations wic will be used for botmeteorology and climatology applications. Te MetOp mission includes several enancements over te existing
NOAA meteorologica l polar satellites, suc as te introduction of advanced sounding and surface wind measurement
capabilities, advanced global ozone monitoring, direct data broadcast services, and te capability to obtain full
resolution data from te complete orbit. In addition, te coice of te orbit parameters as been optimised for
te European weater prediction models.
Eac satellite will carry a set of 12 complementary instruments. Tese comprise sounding (microwave and infra-
red), imagery (ig resolution radiometer images), data collection from buoys and oter platforms, ozone monitoring,
wind scatterometry (wind speed and direction over te ocean), space environment monitoring (carged particle
uxes), as well as a umanitarian service (searc and rescue). Some of tese instruments are common to bot
te MetOp and te US satellites; for example te Microwave humidity Sounder (MhS) a 5-cannel sel f-calibrating
microwave scanning radiometer wic was developed by Astrium.
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