First MetOp-SG and Sentinel-5 launched
www.esa.int
Ushering in a new era of weather and climate monitoring from polar orbit, the first in a new series of satellites, MetOp Second Generation, has been lofted into orbit aboard an Ariane 6 rocket from the European spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. As part of this new satellite’s sophisticated instrument package is the new Copernicus Sentinel-5 instrument, which is designed to deliver critical data on air pollutants, ozone and climate-related gases.
This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot.

The original was posted on /r/space by /u/Foesal on 2025-08-13 04:02:42+00:00.

Lifting off on 13 August at 02:37 CEST (12 August 21:37 local time), the Ariane 6 rocket carried the four-tonne satellite into orbit around Earth. Confirmation that MetOp-SG-A1 was alive and well came at 04:47 CEST, after its solar array had been deployed, ensuring that the satellite could generate power.