Ariane 6's second commercial flight lofted MetOp-SG A1, the first of EUMETSAT's second-generation polar-orbiting weather satellites, into an 800 km sun-synchronous orbit; the spacecraft carries six instruments including the Copernicus Sentinel-5 atmospheric monitoring mission.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4 T
- Flight
- 3rd
- of 6 Ariane 62 flights
- Date and time
- 13 August 2025, 00:37 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 62
- Builder
- ArianeGroup
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 4, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 2025-172
- Launches in 2025
- 179th of 329
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