Soyuz-ST-B/Fregat-M launched MetOp-C, the third and final satellite in the EUMETSAT/ESA MetOp polar-orbiting weather series, from Kourou to continue global atmospheric and ocean monitoring.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4.1 T
- Flight
- 5th
- of 5 Soyuz STB Fregat-MT flights
- Date and time
- 7 November 2018, 00:47 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz STB Fregat-MT
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- Soyuz Launch Complex, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 2018-087
- Launches in 2018
- 89th of 114
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