Europe's second polar-orbiting weather satellite is aloft
Monday, September 17, 2012 - 16:00
in Astronomy & Space
The second Metop satellite was launched Sept. 17 from the Baikonur cosmodrome, in Kazakhstan, atop a Russian Soyuz launcher. Metop-B will ensure the continuity of the weather and atmospheric monitoring service provided by its predecessor Metop-A, which has been circling the globe from pole to pole, 14 times a day, since 2006 and has now exceeded its design lifetime.