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    spacecraft in November 2021 The successor to the Metop satellites will be MetOp-SG, currently with the first MetOp SG-A satellite expected to be launched in...
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  • 2025. MetOp-SG satellites are a follow on from the three MetOp satellites and there are plans to perform a short tandem mission between the Metop-SG-A1...
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    System (EPS) Metop mission consists of three polar orbiting Metop satellites, to be flown successively for more than 14 years. The first, Metop-A, was launched...
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    Reports - DB Query for Metop-A". "FPAS Reports - DB Query for Metop-B". Wesley (9 April 2014). "MetOp-A satellite flare". "Video of Metop-A Flaring". 23 March...
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  • NOAA-19 (NOAA-N Prime), was launched on 6 February 2009. The ESA-provided MetOp satellite operated by EUMETSAT utilize POES-heritage instruments for the...
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  • Space Agency's MetOp series starting with MetOp-A launched in October 2006, continuing with MetOp-B launched in September 2012 and Metop-C launched in...
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    occultation instruments include CHAMP (satellite), GRACE and GRACE-FO, MetOp and the recently launched COSMIC-2. Atmospheric radio occultation relies...
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  • used aboard polar-orbiting, near-Earth weather satellite programs such as MetOp and NPOESS. LRPT provides three image channels at full sensor resolution...
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  • Envisat EROS GOES GOMOS GRACE Hydros ICESat IKONOS Jason-1 Landsat MERIS MetOp Meteor Meteosat MLS MIPAS MISR MODIS MOPITT MTSAT NMP NOAA-N' NPOESS OMI...
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  • between ESA and EUMETSAT. MetOp: MetOp is Europe's first polar-orbiting satellite dedicated to operational meteorology. MetOp is a series of three satellites...
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  • 2009. ESA and EUMETSAT launched the first C-band ASCAT in 2006 onboard Metop-A. The Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS), launched in...
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    satellites ERS-1, ERS-2 and Envisat of European Space Agency as well as the MetOp spacecraft of EUMETSAT are all operated at altitudes of about 800 km (500 mi)...
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  • Express, Venus Express, GOCE, Herschel, Planck, Rosetta, Cryosat-2, Galileo, MetOp (EUMETSAT Polar System), LISA Pathfinder, SWARM, Gaia, SENTINEL spacecraft...
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    Administration (NOAA) family of polar orbiting platforms (POES) and European MetOp satellites. The instrument scans several channels; two are centered on the...
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    generation of Metop satellites (Metop-SG) is in advanced development with launch of the first satellite foreseen in 2025. As with MTG, Metop-SG will launch...
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    KLM satellites the transmission power is 6.35 Watts, or 38.03 dBm. The METOP-A satellite broadcasts with a bandwidth of 4.5 MHz, these use QPSK and AHRPT...
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  • payload of the MetOp series of polar-orbiting meteorological satellites, there are currently two IASI instruments in operation: on MetOp-A (launched 19...
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    the EUMETSAT MetOp series. On these spacecraft, AMSU-B is replaced by similar microwave humidity sounders: HSB for Aqua and MHS for MetOp. The AMSU was...
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    The ERS-1, ERS-2 and Envisat of European Space Agency, as well as the MetOp spacecraft of EUMETSAT and RADARSAT-2 of the Canadian Space Agency, are...
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    Pacific Ocean. The first attempt at launching a Soyuz 2 to orbit, with the MetOp-A satellite, occurred on 17 July 2006. It was scrubbed two hours before...
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    Proba series. MetOp-SG, launching ~2025 onward – Joint EUMETSAT-ESA operational meteorology mission, launching the second generation of MetOp satellites...
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  • Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment (GOME) spectrometers on ERS (GOME) and MetOp (GOME-2). The weaker water vapor absorption lines in the blue spectral range...
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  • Explorers such as GOCE, GRACE, Swarm, EarthCARE, Sentinel Missions, MetOp and MetOp-SG. Airbus Defence and Space has manufactured over a hundred communications...
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    2006-; daytime only since 2011) MetOp (scatterometer, European, 3 satellites, 2006-) with planned successor MetOp-SG SAR Lupe 1-5 (SAR, German Air Force;...
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  • ERS-2 satellite. Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment-2 an instrument on the MetOp-A satellite. Guardians of Middle-earth, a video game. This disambiguation...
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    Shuttle Endeavour and commander of the ISS on Expedition 43, wrote in an op-ed on Ars Technica that the Gateway would "shackle human exploration, not...
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  • Rot op met je milieu (English: Get Lost With Your Environment) is a 2016 Dutch television series by the Evangelische Omroep, presented by Dennis van der...
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    Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) MetOp satellites, and Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) satellites, receiving...
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    panoramas of Baikonur Cosmodrome Baikonur: the town, the cosmodrome, the MetOp-A launch campaign "World's Oldest Space Launch Facility: The Baikonur Cosmodrome...
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  • Rot op met je religie (English: To Hell With Your Religion) is a 2017 Dutch television series by the Evangelische Omroep, presented by Kefah Allush. In...
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