News & Features Apply Refine results Type Article News Categories Satellites Organisation Metop Sentinel Tags Launch AMSU IASI Metop Press Release Date 2018 Date July November December SHOW ALL 6 results News 13 December 2018 Metop-C’s IASI instrument delivers first spectrum A critical element of polar-orbiting meteorological satellite Metop-C’s payload – the Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer (IASI) – delivered its first spectrum today. News 28 November 2018 EUMETSAT takes over operations of Sentinel-3B satellite As of today, EUMETSAT has responsibility for the full dual spacecraft operations of Sentinel-3A and 3B and the marine data production. In the coming few weeks, the team will complete those commissioning activities which could only be performed in the nominal orbital configuration and will ramp up the product releases. News 19 November 2018 US, European teams welcome Metop-C’s first AMSU image The first science data from the Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit (AMSU-A) on board Metop-C has been received News 12 November 2018 EUMETSAT takes over control of Metop-C and starts flight operations of a three-Metop constellation After three days of intensive testing by the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC), EUMETSAT has taken over control of its newest polar-orbiting meteorological satellite, Metop-C, and started flight operations of a constellation of three Metop satellites. News 7 November 2018 EUMETSAT’s third Metop satellite successfully launched At 01:47 CET (21:47 Kourou time), EUMETSAT’s polar-orbiting meteorological satellite Metop-C was successfully launched on a Soyuz ST-B rocket from the European Space Port in Kourou, French Guiana. News 4 July 2018 Preparing for launch! Metop-C, the third and final satellite in a series that has made an unparalleled impact on weather forecast accuracy, has arrived in Kourou, French Guiana, to be prepared for launch.