First of EUMETSAT's MetOp Second Generation B-series weather satellites, built by Airbus, heading to sun-synchronous orbit to complement MetOp-SG-A1. The microwave-focused spacecraft carries a scatterometer, ice-cloud and microwave imagers, a radio-occultation sounder and Argos-4; it arrived at Kourou in October for an Ariane 62 flight.
- Status
- Date TBD
- Target orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Date and time
- December 2026
- Rocket
- Ariane 62
- Builder
- ArianeGroup
- Payload
- Earth Science